Legal

A judge for the Miami-Dade County Court has ordered Aon and individual defendants in the Miami facultative team poaching case to avoid doing reinsurance brokerage business with the defendants’ former Willis Towers Watson clients.

The parties filed a dismissal stipulation with prejudice, meaning that neither Sompo nor Endurance will be able to sue Westfield in any other US court over the same allegations.

Since the motion was filed without prejudice, the giant broker left the door open to refile the same claim in the Miami Dade courthouse.

Upon the agreement’s approval and payment, Century Indemnity Company and other Chubb units will obtain a broad release from BSA-related abuse claims.

Westfield must file its new motion before December 14 and Sompo has until January 7 to file a memorandum in opposition, Judge Schofield ruled.

Think tank R Street says defense attorneys are “on the back foot” in opposing plaintiff bar’s tactics court awards.

Beazley tried to recover $6.5mn in claim costs from Prime on a policy which it led.

Alliant’s motion to dismiss McGriff’s counterclaim in the case follows an order that judge Moore filed setting the case for a two-week trial commencing on August 29 next year in Miami.

Workers’ comp and trucking are two of the lines where verdicts have increased exponentially.

Chubb’s Vigilant, Lloyd’s syndicates and Travelers were turned away in Bear Stearns case over payment fund for investors in 2003 SEC probe.

Willis is accusing its blue-chip rival of conspiring with its former employees to pilfer some of its reinsurance brokerage clients in Florida, causing “irreparable harm".

As of Monday, 14 separate suits were filed against Live Nation, Travis Scott and others involved in Astroworld festival with more expected.