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#1 State Farm Sued Over Policies Backed by Distressed Insurer PHL

Dec 3 2025 // State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. faces a lawsuit accusing it of fraud and unjust enrichment for selling products from PHL Variable Insurance Co., which authorities say has a $2.2 billion capital shortfall that...

#2 Lawsuit Over Burger King’s Whopper Ads Set Back by Federal Judge

Dec 1 2025 // A federal judge dealt a setback to customers suing Burger King over advertising for its Whopper sandwiches, saying their claims were too disparate to justify certifying a nationwide class action.The lawsuit by 19 customers...

#3 Aon Adds to List of Brokers Suing Howden US for Alleged Poaching, Theft

Dec 15 2025 // A new broker is now suing Howden US and a pair of former employees for allegations of poaching and theft of trade secrets.Last week Aon Risk Services Cos. filed suit in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New...

#4 Lawsuit Alleges Farm Bureau Financial Concealed Fraudulent Activities

Nov 24 2025 // Two former top investigators for Farm Bureau Financial Services are suing the company for fraud, racketeering and wrongful termination.The lawsuit alleges the insurer’s management group knew of fraudulent activity...

#5 Litigation Finance Hits a Wall After Bets on Huge Gains Falter

Dec 1 2025 // Litigation finance is having a bad year.After predicting huge growth as recently as January 2024, the industry is now finding that hedge funds and other sources of capital are pulling back. The situation has led some...

#6 SEC to Drop Controversial SolarWinds Cyberattack Lawsuit

Nov 24 2025 // The US Securities and Exchange Commission will drop its landmark lawsuit against SolarWinds Corp. that accused the company of covering up internal problems ahead of a massive cyberattack.The SEC, the software company and...

#7 Abbott Presses Congress for Legal Shield Over Preemie Baby Formula Lawsuits

Dec 11 2025 // The company that makes one of the two most widely used brands of formula for premature babies is threatening to stop. That is, unless US health officials and Congress help protect it from lawsuits related to infant deaths...

#8 Starbucks Must Face Shareholder Lawsuit Over Surprise Sales Decline

Nov 20 2025 // Starbucks must face a lawsuit claiming it defrauded shareholders by concealing declining sales in the United States and China, its largest markets, leading to a 16% drop in its stock price after the coffee chain revealed...

#9 Viewpoint: Coverage Lawsuit Trends Signal a New Era of Insurance Litigation

Dec 1 2025 // A new wave of insurance coverage litigation has taken shape in U.S. federal courts, with lawsuit activity in insurance disputes since 2022 diverging sharply from the patterns of both the pandemic years and the decade...

#10 Suit Against OpenAI and Microsoft Blames ChatGPT for Murder-Suicide

Dec 12 2025 // OpenAI and its investor Microsoft Corp. were sued over a Connecticut murder-suicide in the latest case to blame the popular ChatGPT chatbot for dangerous psychological manipulation of users.The lawsuit turns on the actions...

#11 Most Consumers Aware and Worried How Litigation Increases Insurance Cost

Nov 25 2025 // The message appears to be getting through to consumers: Excessive insurance litigation is not good for insurance costs.According to a new survey from the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (the Big I),...

#12 Tricolor Trustee Files Suit in Texas for Auto Dealer’s Collapse

Dec 11 2025 // Bankrupt subprime auto dealer Tricolor Holdings is preparing to sue the company’s founder for allegedly masterminding a massive fraud that led to the company’s collapse into bankruptcy, according to a court...

#13 Lawsuits Pile Up for a Nursing Home Empire Built Despite State Investigations

Nov 26 2025 // In February 2024, a Los Angeles County jury awarded $2.34 million to an 84-year-old nursing home resident named Betsy Jentz, finding that the facility had violated her rights on 132 occasions, at times leading to serious...

#14 Tesla Sued Over Fatal Crash in Washington in Growing Scrutiny of Doors

Nov 24 2025 // Tesla Inc. was sued over a fiery crash in Washington state that left one person dead and another seriously injured after rescuers allegedly struggled to open the vehicle’s doors, the latest in a growing body of...

#15 Icahn Money Manager Sues His Bosses and Bausch + Lomb Over Anti-White Bias

Dec 18 2025 // A money manager at Carl Icahn’s investment firm is suing Bausch + Lomb Corp. and his billionaire employer, alleging he was discriminated against for being White.The manager, Steven Miller, claims he wasdenied a board...

#16 Standard Chartered Settles £1.5 Billion Iranian Sanction Suit in London

Dec 5 2025 // Standard Chartered Plc has settled an investor lawsuit worth £1.5 billion ($2 billion) over allegations it systematically breached sanctions against Iran to win new business.In a London Court of Appeal ruling over...

#17 Insurance Tech: Zywave Releases Suite of Specialized AI Agents

Dec 17 2025 // Insurance technology provider Zywave unveiled an agentic AI strategy, and what it calls the industry’s first suite of insurance-specialized AI agents.The agents will help insurance companies transform how they work...

#18 Viewpoint: Bombarded by Fire Lawsuits, Policy Change is Sorely Needed in California

Dec 2 2025 // Mere days into the new year of 2025, Los Angeles faced the highly destructive Palisades Fire, which destroyed some 6,837 structures, including two public schools, four churches, historical sites and more than 5,400 homes....

#19 Illinois Roofing Company Sued for Race and Sex Harassment

Nov 26 2025 // Anthony Roofing Tecta America LLC and Tecta America Corporation, roofing services providers in Illinois and nationwide, violated federal law when they subjected African American and female employees of their Aurora,...

#20 New York Times Sues Perplexity AI for ‘Illegal’ Copying of Content

Dec 5 2025 // The New York Times filed a lawsuit against Perplexity AI on Friday, claiming that the artificial intelligence startup was copying, distributing and displaying millions of its articles without permission.The startup has...