Beazley has appointed Richard Montminy as global head of the company's property division, effective May 20, 2019.

The Supreme Court of Iowa has ruled that a common law cause of action for bad faith failure to pay workers' compensation benefits was not available against the third party claims administrator of a worker's compensation insurance carrier.

A divided Louisiana Supreme Court has ruled that Louisiana law does not prohibit the enforcement of a forum selection clause in an insurance policy requiring litigation in New York – a result the dissent called “ridiculous.”

A district court judge in New York has dismissed numerous claims brought by the National Rifle Association of America against various New York officials relating to the NRA's Carry Guard insurance.

A Florida appellate court has ruled that an insurer's post-suit payment of an appraisal award constituted a confession that it had incorrectly denied benefits to its insureds by erroneously invoking the policy sublimit in its formal response to the claim they submitted before suing.

A Massachusetts court has ruled that a secured lender's loss in a totaled vehicle was covered under the vehicle's insurance policy even though the collision occurred while the vehicle was being used to transport Uber passengers, in violation of the policy's public conveyance exclusion.

The Supreme Court of Iowa has upheld a provision of Iowa law granting immunity to workers' compensation insurance carriers for inspections they perform (or fail to perform).

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit has ruled that a medical malpractice insurance company owed coverage for a default judgment obtained against an insured physician who fled the country and refused to participate in the defense of a malpractice action against him.