Wolverine World Wide, Inc. v. American Insurance Company, The et al

  1. August 02, 2024

    Wolverine, Travelers Drop Coverage Claims Over PFAS Suits

    Footwear company Wolverine and various Travelers units have agreed to end their coverage battle over underlying lawsuits accusing the company of injuring individuals through its leather tannery operations and exposing individuals to so-called forever chemicals, the parties told a Michigan federal court.

  2. June 21, 2024

    Wolverine Inks Deal To End PFAS Coverage Fight

    Footwear company Wolverine and one of its insurers have told a Michigan federal judge that they have reached a settlement in a coverage dispute over underlying chemical exposure actions, saying they "have agreed to a signed, confidential term sheet to resolve this action."

  3. February 27, 2024

    Wolverine Can't Get Sanctions Win In PFAS Coverage Fight

    An insurer repeatedly withheld relevant documents from shoewear company Wolverine in a coverage dispute over PFAS chemical injury suits, but the behavior was not egregious and did not cause enough damage to Wolverine's case to merit sanctions, a Michigan special master said Monday.

  4. February 22, 2024

    Wolverine Wants Judgment, Sanctions In PFAS Coverage Row

    Footwear company Wolverine asked a Michigan federal court Thursday to grant it a win and impose additional sanctions against its insurer for continued "flagrant disregard and willful disobedience of discovery orders" in a dispute over coverage of PFAS chemical injury suits that may set the tone for similar litigation.

  5. January 18, 2024

    Travelers Workers Ordered To Testify In Shoe Co.'s PFAS Suit

    Travelers claims handlers must testify about the insurer's practices for handling complex commercial and environmental insurance claims in a footwear company's PFAS coverage dispute, a special master in the Michigan federal court suit ordered.

  6. January 01, 2024

    General Liability Cases To Watch In 2024

    The first half of 2024 is poised to produce some significant commercial general liability coverage decisions, including a potential ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court on an insurer's fight for standing in an asbestos bankruptcy settlement. Here, Law360 looks at the cases to watch for in the early months of the new year.

  7. December 04, 2023

    Special Master Orders Travelers Atty To Sit For PFAS Depo

    A Travelers Indemnity Co. attorney must be compelled to sit for a deposition in a PFAS coverage suit launched against the insurer by footwear company Wolverine World Wide Inc., a special master in the lawsuit in Michigan federal court has ordered, despite Travelers' argument that, as in-house counsel, the attorney should be shielded.

  8. November 15, 2023

    Travelers Fights Atty Testimony In Footwear Co. PFAS Fight

    The Travelers Indemnity Co. has asked a Michigan federal court to reject a footwear company's motion to compel the deposition of Travelers' in-house attorney, arguing the request was prohibited when the evidence could be obtained elsewhere and, further, that the footwear company had already blocked its own in-house counsel from being deposed.

  9. November 14, 2023

    Footwear Co. Seeks Sanctions Over Delayed Documents

    A footwear company sought sanctions against an insurer it said failed to produce notes about the company's insurance claims related to underlying chemical exposure actions, telling a Michigan federal court the insurer produced the information only after multiple court orders and now the company must re-depose witnesses.

  10. September 11, 2023

    Travelers Fights Sanctions In Chemical Coverage Dispute

    A Michigan federal court should reject a special master's order requiring Travelers to produce unredacted documents, the insurer argued, maintaining its failure to comply with discovery requests was a genuine mistake and not a bad faith attempt to withhold documents in a footwear company's coverage dispute over chemical exposure claims.