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Best Buy accused three AXA XL units of failing to properly cover its "multi-million-dollar" settlement of negligence claims over a fatal automobile collision involving an independent subcontractor, telling a Minnesota federal court its insurers have restricted coverage to an inapplicable auto policy with a $6 million deductible.

An excess insurer for a fuel and chemical transportation company told a Utah federal court it should owe no coverage for an oil tanker collision and resultant crude oil cleanup costs, pointing to what is known as a total pollution exclusion.

The Washington Supreme Court will review a state appeals court's decision finding that a Liberty Mutual unit owes no coverage over a restaurant kitchen fire because of the building owners' failure to fully comply with protective safeguard requirements in their policy.

An electronic payments company's insurer must turn over claim files and underwriting materials as they continue to litigate whether the company's roughly $6.8 million loss from two fraud schemes falls within its policy's coverage for "computer fraud," an Iowa federal court ruled Tuesday.

An insurer for an attorney and his practice does not owe $275,000 to an investment company over a soured cryptocurrency deal that ended in a $700,000 settlement, a Pennsylvania federal court ruled, finding that a contractual liability exclusion in the attorney's policy applies. 

An insurer for an attorney and his practice does not owe $275,000 to an investment company over a soured cryptocurrency deal that ended in a $700,000 settlement, a Pennsylvania federal court ruled, finding that a contractual liability exclusion in the attorney's policy applies. 

The Second Circuit upheld Citgo's $54.2 million judgment against insurers over seized Venezuelan oil cargo, a California federal court officially approved an $80 million class settlement over life insurance terminations and a New York federal court sent the state's data breach lawsuit against Allstate entities back to state court. Here, Law360 takes a look at the past week's top insurance news.

The Ninth Circuit upheld a Washington federal court's no-coverage decision over a contractor's $2.66 million settlement relating to faulty retaining walls it constructed, agreeing Wednesday that a "sudden and accidental" exception in an "impaired property" exclusion did not apply to reinstate coverage for one wall that had failed.

A property owner's title insurer owes no coverage for an underlying quiet title action over ownership of a private road between two separate properties, a New York federal court ruled, finding coverage exceptions in two policies relating to the rights of parties "in possession" were applicable.

A property owner's title insurer owes no coverage for an underlying quiet title action over ownership of a private road between two separate properties, a New York federal court ruled, finding coverage exceptions in two policies relating to the rights of parties "in possession" were applicable.