Government Contracts

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

A Savannah, Georgia, roofing company agreed to drop its suit accusing a government contractor and an insurer of not paying for about $352,000 of labor and materials it contributed to a construction project at a U.S. Army base.

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Government Contracts

DECEMBER 2, 2024

A consulting firm told an Illinois federal court that its insurer must reimburse it for a $7.6 million settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice relating to a lawsuit accusing the firm of allowing personal information to be compromised, maintaining that the litigation fell within its policy's scope.

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Government Contracts

MAY 9, 2024

An insurer cannot yet avoid defending gas companies in personal injury litigation after a subcontractor caused an explosion injuring three people, an Indiana federal court ruled, reiterating a previous finding that the subcontractor's ultimate release from liability following a settlement has no bearing on the gas companies' additional insured status. (..)

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Government Contracts

JANUARY 5, 2024

A Delaware court remained steadfast Thursday in its decision to set aside a verdict finding an ex-Xerox unit that paid Texas a $236 million Medicaid fraud-related settlement tried to defraud its insurers into providing coverage, rejecting the insurers' request for a reargument.

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Government Contracts

APRIL 3, 2024

An insurance company has asked a federal court to force companies connected to an insolvent contractor to hand over more than $38 million to compensate for costs it covered for unfinished jobs.

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Government Contracts

JANUARY 18, 2024

A contractor and its insurer have settled a $10.5 million lawsuit seeking coverage for shoddy construction work on a school on a military base, according to a joint statement Thursday in Maryland federal court.

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ExecutiveBiz

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Department of Agriculture’s Crop Insurance Program. Technology company Alpha Omega has secured a contract to support the U.S. The company said Monday that it will work with the USDA to protect the agricultural sector against the impacts of climate change.

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Redstone Government Consulting

AUGUST 28, 2024

CAS 416 provides criteria for the measurement of insurance costs, the assignment of such costs to cost accounting periods, and the allocation to final cost.

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Government Contracts

JUNE 24, 2024

A Colorado landlord accused an insurance broker and carrier of secretly adding an endorsement to its policy to bar coverage for a $1 million settlement the landlord entered into to resolve a state investigation over alleged misuse of tenant funds.

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Government Contracts

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

A Seattle construction contractor told a Washington state jury on Wednesday its insurers owe $143 million for repairs to a massive tunneling machine that sustained "catastrophic damage" when it struck a steel pipe underground in 2013, urging jurors to reject the defense that the claim fell under a "machinery breakdown" exclusion.

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Government Contracts

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

CVS Health subsidiary Oak Street will pay $60 million to settle allegations it violated the False Claims Act by paying illegal kickbacks to third-party insurers in return for scouting and inducing Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries to enroll in its primary care clinics, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Wednesday.

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GovLoop

MARCH 24, 2023

Here’s a quick look at how the threat landscape is growing: With the severity of cyberattacks like these on the rise, some agencies are turning to cybersecurity insurance for an added level of protection. A robust cyber strategy ideally will make cyber liability insurance not just affordable, but ultimately unnecessary.

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Government Contracts

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

An insurance company has urged a Montana federal court to temporarily block a group of construction companies from transferring assets, alleging they owe more than $2.6 million in payments, claims and attorney fees related to projects in Montana and Wyoming.

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Government Contracts

JUNE 20, 2024

Department of the Interior Secretary Deb Haaland is seeking an early win in a challenge over the cancelation of a $20 million tribal loan guarantee, arguing that an Ohio federal district court lacks subject-matter jurisdiction over Great American Life Insurance Co.'s s remaining claims.

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Government Contracts

MAY 16, 2024

Following the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge, businesses that depend on the bridge, the Port of Baltimore and related infrastructure for shipment and distribution of cargo should understand which common types of first-party insurance coverage may provide recoveries for financial losses, say Bert Wells and Richard Lewis at Reed Smith.

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Government Contracts & Global Trade

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Joann Lytle, in her role as Symposium Committee Co-Chair, was mentioned in the American College of Coverage Counsel Winter Newsletter for her work on its 9th Annual Insurance Law Symposium at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School.

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GovLoop

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Navigating the world of health insurance can be tricky. PT to hear from Maggie Martel, Manager, Enrollment and Member Support, Healthcare and Insurance, Office of Personnel Management, who will share how to make the most out of your benefits. How can you feel confident that you’re choosing the right fit for you and your family?

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Government Contracts

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

An insurer urged a Louisiana federal court Monday to award it over $17 million in damages following several dredging contractors' alleged abandonment of multiple public utility projects, arguing that the contractors failed to pay it back for bonds it issued under a 2014 indemnity agreement.

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Government Contracts

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

A Honolulu-based insurer that paid over half a million dollars to a fast food operator that was forced to temporarily shut down after fuel leaks at a Navy facility contaminated the public water supply told a Hawaii federal court that the U.S. is on the hook for those costs.

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Whistleblower Network News

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Department of Justice announced that Oak Street Health agreed to pay $60 million to settle allegations that it violated the Anti-Kickback Statute and False Claims Act by paying kickbacks to third-party insurance agents in exchange for referring seniors to Oak Street Health’s primary care clinics.

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Kluwer Arbitration

MAY 21, 2024

Northern’s projects that Argonaut insured were governed by a framework agreement between Swinerton and Northern which included an arbitration clause. As required by the work orders for these projects, Northern obtained performance and payment bonds from a California-licensed insurer, Argonaut.

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Procureware

MARCH 28, 2018

However, if the service provider is not adequately insured and licensed, the organization is exposed to increased liabilities. While all companies verify insurance and licensing before issuing the contract, the insurance will invariably expire during the life of the contract. Once verified, they flag it as ‘internally approved.’

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FedTech Magazine

OCTOBER 17, 2024

That means protecting tribal history at CPN’s Cultural Heritage Center museum and data in the Tribal Rolls Department, which handles membership, including tribal enrollment, burial insurance and tribal ID cards. Data is so important for a company, and that data needs to be backed up,” says tribe CIO Christopher Abel. “It

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Government Contracts

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Travelers has ended its dispute over whether another insurer must defend a general contractor, school district and construction manager in a worker's personal injury lawsuit as additional insureds, after a New York federal judge approved the parties' mutual request to drop the action.

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FedScoop

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The Department of Labor plans to work with state agencies to boost the reliability of the country’s unemployment insurance systems. The new program, called the OpenUI Initiative, aims to promote modular unemployment insurance technology.

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Government Contracts

JANUARY 5, 2024

A Colorado county water authority has accused Gemini Insurance Co. of failing to defend a construction company that was found liable for $3.5 million in damages related to a botched construction project that caused a sewage line failure.

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GovCon & Trade

DECEMBER 14, 2023

After the declination was made public, media reports suggested that the DOJ and SFO were also probing Seguros Sucre and its conduct involving other UK-based insurance firms, including Tysers Insurance Brokers Limited (Tysers). Tysers Insurance Brokers Limited and H.W.

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GovCon & Trade

JANUARY 9, 2024

First, the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) settled investigations into apparent sanctions violations by a New York-based insurance company and California-based virtual currency exchange. Overview December saw continuing enforcement actions involving Russia.

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Government Contracts

MAY 22, 2024

The city of Seattle says two short-line railroads have breached agreements to maintain liability insurance and indemnify the city in lawsuits from cyclists injured crossing tracks along a perilous stretch of a popular bike trail, according to a complaint filed in Washington state court.

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Oles Morrison

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Sullivan On August 11, 2022, the Washington Supreme Court issued a decision upending the landscape of commercial general liability insurance (CGL) policies for contractors. By Sydney M. The Court’s opinion in Preferred Contractors Ins. Baker & Son Constr. 100466-4, 2022 WL 3270083 (Wash.

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Government Contracts

JUNE 13, 2024

An Illinois federal judge affirmed an arbitration award relieving two insurers of covering a $1.8 million bond issued to a subcontractor retained for a U.S. Army construction project, upholding the arbitrator's finding that the status of the project wasn't accurately represented at the time of bond procurement.

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Government Contracts

MAY 16, 2024

A new model of litigation finance, most aptly described as insurance-backed litigation funding, differs from traditional funding in two key ways, and the process of securing it involves three primary steps, say Bob Koneck, Christopher Le Neve Foster and Richard Butters at Atlantic Global Risk LLC.

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Government Contracts

JUNE 4, 2024

United Specialty Insurance, notable for a concurrence outlining the use of artificial intelligence to evaluate a term's common meaning, is hopefully the first step toward developing a coherent basis for the judiciary's generative AI use, says David Zaslowsky at Baker McKenzie. Last week's Eleventh Circuit opinion in Snell v.

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Whistleblower Network News

JULY 10, 2024

101 Million Settlement over Allegations of Falsely Reporting Rebates Rite Aid and Rite Aid subsidiaries, Elixir Insurance Company, RX Options LLC and RX Solutions LLC agreed to pay the government $101 million to settle the allegations of falsely reporting rebates. Lutzko for the Northern District of Ohio.

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Government Contracts

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

A manufacturer of N95 respirator materials and its insurer told a California federal court they have resolved and agreed to drop a dispute over coverage for a suit claiming the manufacturer caused mask makers to lose a $90 million government contract.

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Government Contracts

DECEMBER 20, 2023

health insurance programs and double-billed the cost of COVID-19 tests to federal, local and state governments. A Houston hospital owner will pay more than $2 million to resolve allegations the company overcharged U.S.

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Government Contracts

DECEMBER 4, 2023

A real estate company and a title insurer notified a Texas federal court that the parties finalized a settlement, ending a coverage row alleging that the company's land diminished in value and was subject to unforeseen development restrictions.

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