Litigation

A federal judge has granted final approval to a settlement of up to $712.5 million for workers' claims against the World Trade Center Insurance Company.

A U.S. District Court judge has elected not to grant an injunction requested by wholesale broker CRC Insurance Services Inc. against former employees now with competitor Ryan Specialty Group's R-T Specialty of Illinois, LLC (RTS).

State Farm will visit Kentucky on Tuesday to speak with former attorney Richard "Dickie" Scruggs.

In the first jury trial of a case involving Chinese drywall, a Miami-area couple was awarded nearly $2.5 million.

Walmart may be the most frequent defendant named in wage-and-hour lawsuits, but insurers and pharmaceutical companies are also caught up in a maze of rules they did not know applied to certain subsets of their workforce, experts said.

The National Flood Insurance Program will pay claims for damage to homes and contents from oil driven ashore during hurricanes, its officials announced earlier this month.

If the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement opened a costly investigation of your business and employment practices, would the legal costs be covered under your existing employment practices liability insurance policy?

Fear of wage-and-hour claims is escalating among buyers and sellers of employment practices liability insurance, with sellers' fears limiting EPLI solutions for small employers--and resulting in none at all for the largest ones, market participants report.