Legal

Marsh is taking trademark infringement action against Marshmallow, in an attempt to skewer the start-up over its choice of name, the InsurTech said.

California wildfire victims may get more time to sue their insurers and be able to force their carriers to be more flexible in applying benefits to help them recover if legislative proposals put forward today win passage.

Bermuda-headquartered insurer Hiscox has brought an action in a US district court in Illinois to avoid paying further legal defence costs for a company alleged to have sold human body parts for profit

Industry association Insurance Europe has warned that European Commission efforts to overhaul 2013 rules for group litigation could be detrimental to insurers.

California regulators have put Wells Fargo on notice that it may lose its insurance licences following an investigation that began last year into whistleblower allegations that bank representatives had improperly signed up customers for coverage they did not want

Underwriters face the prospect of mounting data protection-related liability claims following a landmark UK High Court judgment against Morrisons, experts have said.

Patriot National, the insurance services outsourcer majority owned by former CEO Steven Mariano, plans to seek Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection as part of a deal to be acquired by its secured lenders.

Guarantee Insurance controlling shareholder and former Patriot National CEO Steven Mariano received transfers from Guarantee for no clear business purpose, weakening the carrier's financial position, a Florida accountant has alleged.

A US unit of global insurer QBE must pay a $750,000 fine to New York State after regulators said the carrier failed to follow rules covering certain types of group policies it sold to dozens of post-secondary schools.

Willis Towers Watson is facing a class action lawsuit in a Virginia court over the handling of the 2015 merger between Willis and Towers Watson.

21st Century Fox has agreed to settle a shareholder derivative lawsuit arising from a sex harassment scandal that enveloped the Fox News network last year, with the $90mn settlement funded by the company’s directors’ and officers’ (D&O) insurers.

A member of the Greek parliament has posed questions to the country's finance minister about Exin's proposed EUR958mn ($1.10bn) acquisition of state-owned insurer Ethniki, citing concerns about "major liquidity problems" and issues with the recently submitted change of control request