A Pennsylvania judge has ruled that an insurance broker and its employee are not entitled to indemnity under their “advertising injury” coverage for a $30 million judgment levied against them in a federal suit in which they were alleged to have copied language from a rival’s client documents and used it for their own.
A Philadelphia judge has ruled that Cigna is not entitled to indemnity for any of the $140 million it agreed to pay to settle a class action eight years ago because it intentionally failed to apportion the payments between RICO claims, which were covered by its professional liability insurance policy, and breach of contract claims, which were not.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday revived a suit against a police officer who shot and killed a handcuffed man after mistakenly drawing a firearm instead of a Taser, finding that she was not entitled to qualified immunity.
In one of the hottest cases on the California Supreme Court’s docket, the justices sided 6-1 with the insurance industry Thursday, ruling that personal injury plaintiffs are not entitled to full recovery of medical bills if their insurers paid only a smaller, negotiated amount.
Before a court vacated Jesus Ramirez and Alfredo Sifuentes’ convictions, they spent 12 years in prison for a murder they say they didn’t commit. A federal jury took less than five hours to find that the men’s civil rights were not violated and they are not entitled to collect damages.