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U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, September 15, 2022 - Fireman’s Fund Ins. Co. v. Onebeacon Ins. Co., 2022 U.S. App. LEXIS 25863 - Fireman’s Fund Insurance Company (“Fireman’s Fund”) issued three excess...more
We have been tracking an ongoing reinsurance matter in which Odyssey Reinsurance Co. obtained a $3.2 million default judgment against Cal-Regent Insurance Services Corp. and Pacific Brokers Insurance Services (PBIS) as a...more
A California district court issued its latest decision arising from Odyssey Reinsurance Company’s ongoing effort to collect a $3.2 million default judgment against insurance agency Cal-Regent, its successor PBIS, and their...more
Applied Underwriters Captive Risk Assurance Company, Inc. (Applied) defeated a motion for summary judgment filed by Beemac Driver Management, LLC (Beemac), in a lawsuit precipitated by Beemac’s alleged failure to pay either...more
An Illinois appellate court recently affirmed a lower court decision granting summary judgment and denying defendant insurers’ motion to compel arbitration where Nebraska law governed, reverse preempted the Federal...more
The Second Circuit has partially vacated summary judgment rulings in a case involving the reinsurance of asbestos-related risks. ...more
Capitol Life Insurance Co. moved the Court of Appeals for the Fifth District of Texas for rehearing of the court’s prior affirmance of summary judgment against Capitol in favor of MetLife Insurance Company USA, MetLife...more
Capitol Life Insurance Co. partially prevailed, and partially failed, its effort to overturn unfavorable grants of summary judgment in a recent dispute regarding an annuity policy written by Capitol....more
Munich Reinsurance America, Inc. and Utica Mutual Insurance are headed to a bench trial in the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York in a case regarding two facultative reinsurance certificates...more
Defendant, Munich Re, moved for summary judgment relating to defense costs and allocation and Plaintiff, Utica, moved for summary judgment as to Munich Re’s claim for reimbursement. The Court denied the motions with the...more
Utica Mutual Insurance Company’s request that numerous exhibits filed in support of summary judgment be sealed has been rejected by a federal district court, which found that Utica’s general statements about the documents...more
Our prior discussion of this case, and relevant background, can be found here. In 2012, Pine Top Receivables of Illinois, LLC (“PTRIL”) brought an action against Banco de Seguros del Estado (“Banco”) to recover sums...more
In a short, unanimous opinion, the New York Appellate Division, First Department, affirmed a trial court’s ruling that genuine issues of fact precluded it from granting summary judgment to a reinsurer or the plaintiff-cedents...more
A lawsuit filed in the United States Court for the District of Connecticut between Odyssey Reinsurance Company and Cal-Regent Insurance Services Corporation involves a dispute over commission payments in a reinsurance scheme...more