BatesCarey secured summary judgment for Aspen Insurance UK Ltd., defeating the Endo International bankruptcy trustee's attempt to batch tens of thousands of pelvic mesh claims into a single 2011-2012 insurance policy period.

Missouri's Court of Appeals found BatesCarey clients Aspen Insurance UK Ltd. and Old Colony State Insurance Company owe no coverage for over $1 billion in Mallinckrodt opioid liabilities, ruling the claims fall within the policies' PCOH provisions.

BatesCarey partner Jordon Steinway adds to Clear Blue’s string of victories, securing a pair of significant rulings that confirm the ERM Exclusion bars coverage for model image and likeness claims arising from nightclub advertising.

Agelo Reppas and Schuyler Davis obtained a unanimous Eighth Circuit affirmance for USLI, with the court holding that a professional liability policy's money-handling exclusion barred coverage for all claims arising from an insurance broker's failure to remit a homeowners' insurance premium.

Jordon Steinway secured a crucial victory for Clear Blue Specialty Insurance Company in a Florida federal court coverage dispute over a nightclub’s alleged misappropriation of professional models’ images and likenesses on social media. The Middle District of Florida ruled that a policy exclusion barred coverage and rejected the plaintiffs’ illusory coverage argument.  

Agelo Reppas and Colleen Sorensen achieved unanimous Indiana Court of Appeals victory, reversing the previous denial of summary judgment in a dispute regarding whether a watercraft limitation bars coverage for an insured’s CERCLA liability.

BatesCarey filed an amicus curiae brief to the Illinois Supreme Court on behalf of Swiss Re Corporate Solutions Elite Insurance Corporation, seeking to overturn 15 years of legal precedent regarding policy holders’ emissions and “pollution” in Illinois.

BatesCarey achieved a unanimous ruling from the Supreme Court of Kentucky, finding no duty to defend or indemnify a wrongful conviction claim and resulting in a $28 million consent judgment. The decision establishes new law in Kentucky and should better equip insurers nationwide in rebutting claims of continuous “personal injury” coverage across decades of incarceration. Colemon v. Westport Ins. Co., No. 2023-SC-0497-DG, 2025 WL 3768513