Continental Properties Company, Inc., et al. v. Hiscox Insurance Company, Inc.
Year: 2026
Court: Wisconsin Supreme Court
Case Number: 2024AP000197
Issue:
  • Direct Loss
  • Employee Theft Coverage
  • Proximate Causation
State:
  • Wisconsin

In its amicus brief, United Policyholders urges the Wisconsin Supreme Court to reverse a ruling denying coverage for losses caused by an employee kickback scheme. UP argues that commercial crime policies covering losses “resulting directly from” employee theft require proximate causation, not an immediate transfer…
Publix Super Markets, Inc. v. ACE Property and Casualty Insurance Company, et al.
Year: 2026
Court: Supreme Court of Florida
Case Number: SC2026-0899
Issue:
  • Bodily injury / occurrence
State:
  • Florida

In its amicus brief, United Policyholders argues that lawsuits seeking reimbursement under liability insurance policies for medical, addiction-treatment, and other costs caused by opioid addiction and overdose seek “damages because of bodily injury.” UP argues that while insurance policies require a causal connection between the…
Eubanks, et al. v. Philadelphia Indemnity Insurance Co., et al.
Year: 2026
Court: Supreme Court of Georgia
Case Number: S26C1196
Issue:
  • Occurrence
State:
  • Georgia

In its amicus brief, United Policyholders urges the Georgia Supreme Court to review and reverse the Court of Appeals’ ruling. UP argues that coverage for ongoing mental anguish from childhood sexual abuse should depend on the specific policy language, not a blanket rule that the…
James Berns v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company
Year: 2026
Court: Colorado Supreme Court
Case Number: 26SA86
Issue:
  • Discoverability of Post-Litigation Claim Files
  • Insurance Bad Faith
  • Post-Litigation Duties of Good Faith
State:
  • Colorado

In its amicus brief, United Policyholders and the Colorado Trial Lawyers Association urge the Colorado Supreme Court to reject the judicially created “suspension rule” announced in Bucholtz, under which an insurer’s duty to negotiate, settle, or pay claims is purportedly suspended once litigation begins. The…
North River Insurance Company and RiverStone Claims Management LLC v. Landis+Gyr Technology, Inc.
Year: 2026
Court: Indiana Supreme Court
Case Number: 25A-PL-00375
Issue:
  • Choice of Law
State:
  • Indiana

In its amicus brief, United Policyholders urges the Indiana Supreme Court to grant transfer and clarify that Indiana’s “most intimate contact” choice-of-law analysis should focus on the practical location and quality of the insured risk rather than mechanically counting insured locations. UP argues that this…
Pryce v. Progressive Cas. Ins. Co.
Year: 2026
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Case Number: 25-2994
Issue:
  • Auto insurance
  • Calculation of Limits
  • policyholder reasonable expectations
State:
  • New York

In its amicus brief, United Policyholders filed an amicus brief supporting policyholders challenging Progressive’s practice of reducing no-fault wage-loss payments through statutory offsets while simultaneously counting the larger pre-offset amount toward exhausting policy limits. UP argued that this approach violates policyholders’ reasonable expectations and the…
Spectrum Retirement Communities, LLC, et al. v. Continental Casualty Company
Year: 2026
Court: Supreme Court of Colorado
Case Number: 2025SC433
Issue:
  • COVID-19
State:
  • Colorado

In its amicus brief, United Policyholders urges the Colorado Supreme Court to reverse the Court of Appeals majority’s ruling in Spectrum, which imposed a judicially created “complete uninhabitability” requirement for coverage under standard all-risk commercial property insurance policies. UP argues this requirement has no basis…
Second Green Mountain Townhouse Corporation v. Mesa Underwriters Speciality Insurance Company
Year: 2026
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Case Number: 25-1448
Issue:
  • Consent Judgments
State:
  • Colorado

In its amicus brief, United Policyholders urges the Court to uphold the validity and enforceability of covenants not to execute in the insurance context. UP argues that these agreements serve important public policy goals by promoting settlement and conserving judicial resources, that Colorado law properly…
Chris Eldredge Containers, LLC v. National Union Fire Insurance Company of Pittsburgh, PA, et al.
Year: 2026
Court: Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Case Number: Consolidated Case Nos. 59 MAP 2025 & 60 MAP 2025
Issue:
  • Duty to Defend / Auto Exclusion
State:
  • Pennsylvania

In its amicus brief, United Policyholders urges the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to affirm the Superior Court’s ruling in favor of policyholder Chris Eldredge Containers, LLC. The case turns on whether an “Absolute Auto, Aircraft and Watercraft Exclusion” bars the insurers’ duty to defend where the…
Ex parte State Farm Fire and Casualty Company (In re: James M. Foor and Krystina Foor v. State Farm Fire Mutual Insurance Company)
Year: 2026
Court: Supreme Court of Alabama
Case Number: SC-2025-0918
Issue:
  • Discovery Sharing Provisions / Protective Orders in Bad Faith Insurance Litigation
State:
  • Alabama

In its amicus brief, United Policyholders contends that the trial court acted within its broad discretion in issuing a limited discovery sharing provision, permitting plaintiff’s counsel to use discovered materials in similarly situated bad faith cases. UP argues that such provisions promote fairness, prevent insurer…
Fox Paine & Company, LLC, et al. v. Twin City Fire Insurance Company, et al.
Year: 2025
Court: Supreme Court of California
Case Number: S287404
Issue:
  • Excess Insurance / Exhaustion
State:
  • California

In its amicus brief, United Policyholders urged the California Supreme Court to reverse the Court of Appeal’s ruling in Fox Paine, which held that a policyholder cannot seek declaratory relief against excess insurers until the immediately underlying insurer has actually paid its policy limits. UP…
Weyerhaeuser Co. v. National Interstate Ins. Co.
Year: 2025
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Case Number: 24-3066
Issue:
  • Self-Insured Retention
State:
  • California

In its amicus brief, United Policyholders contends that “self-insurance” does not constitute insurance and, in fact, is its antithesis.
Los Angeles Unified School District v. Lexington Insurance Company
Year: 2025
Court: California Second Appellate District
Case Number: B340066
Issue:
  • Accident/Occurrence
  • Employee's Torts and Negligence
  • Employer's Vicarious Liability
State:
  • California

In its amicus brief, United Policyholders addresses important doctrinal questions regarding liability insurance coverage for liabilities arising from an employer’s negligent hiring, supervision, or retention of an employee that causes harm or commits an intentional tort. Specifically, United Policyholders’ brief addresses how it is necessary…
Starr Indemnity & Liability Insurance Co., v. American Commercial Barge Line, LLC
Year: 2025
Court: Indiana Court of Appeals
Case Number: 25A-PL-01073
Issue:
  • Choice of Law
  • Maritime
State:
  • Indiana

In its amicus brief, United Policyholders argues against the application of federal admiralty law relating to insurance claims of a nonmarine nature. Insurance policies that provide broad-based and nonmarine coverages that are clearly distinct and separate from other covered maritime risks as a general rule…
Evanston Insurance Company v. Roman Catholic Bishop of Orange
Year: 2025
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Case Number: 25-3165
Issue:
  • Aggregate Limits
  • Policy Interpretation
State:
  • California

In its amicus brief, United Policyholders addresses whether an insurance policy that does not contain an aggregate limit should have an aggregate limit imposed by a court on the grounds that a general liability policy with only a per occurrence limit of liability, and no…
Nargizyan v. State Farm
Year: 2026
Court: California Second Appellate District
Case Number: B342340
Issue:
  • Water Damage
State:
  • California

United Policyholders has been getting numerous reports in recent years about water damage claims being aggressively denied on specious grounds. We have also received information about a major insurer having a “secret” water damage initiative through which it is strategically denying water damage claims.  UP…
Montrose Chemical Corp. of California v. Superior Court (Canadian Universal)
Year: 2026
Court: California Supreme Court
Case Number: S285083, S293914
Issue:
  • Extrinsic Evidence & Qualified Pollution Exclusion
State:
  • California

United Policyholders submitted multiple letters in support of the petition for review as well as an amicus brief on the merits. UP’s submissions argue that when interpreting insurance policies, courts should not refuse to consider relevant extrinsic evidence simply because the policy language appears unambiguous…
Spectrum Retirement Communities, LLC, et al. v. Continental Casualty Company
Year: 2025
Court: Colorado Supreme Court
Case Number: 2025SC433
Issue:
  • COVID-19
State:
  • Colorado

In its amicus curiae brief, United Policyholders supports coverage for an insured’s business interruption losses related to the SARS-CoV-2 virus and COVID-19. UP’s brief addresses the far-reaching and adverse effects that the lower court’s split decision is likely to have on Colorado policyholders, if not…