MINNEAPOLIS — A trial court did not err in granting a property insurer’s motion for summary judgment in a water and mold damage coverage dispute because the policy clearly excludes mold damage and requires repairs to be completed within two years of the date of loss in order for replacement cost benefits to be paid, a Minnesota Court of Appeals panel said Aug. 10.

ST. LOUIS — The Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Aug. 10 affirmed a lower federal court’s ruling in favor of an insurer in its lawsuit disputing directors and officers liability coverage for underlying lawsuits seeking to collect defaulted loans from the insured’s executives, holding that the executives were not “Insured Individuals” under the policy and, therefore, the insurer did not owe coverage.

CHICAGO — The Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court’s grant of summary judgment to Chicago in a wrongful death and failure to accommodate suit filed under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and related state law after a police officer contracted COVID-19 and died, finding that the record shows that the Chicago Police Department did accommodate the decedent and that his illness and death did not result from COVID-19 exposure that occurred after he requested reassignment.

PHILADELPHIA — Philadelphia casino owners accused of failing to protect employees’ and customers’ personally identifiable information (PII) following a ransomware attack have been plausibly accused of negligence but haven’t been shown to be liable for the data breach, a federal judge in Pennsylvania ruled, largely granting the owners’ motion to dismiss the putative class complaint.

PALM BEACH, Fla. — A Florida federal judge on Aug. 7 denied as moot an additional insured’s motion to dismiss following an agreement between the insurer, the additional insured and the underlying plaintiff to dismiss without prejudice the insurer’s claims stemming from a coverage dispute over damages caused by a sewage pipe rupture.

LINCOLN, Neb. — A Nebraska federal judge on Aug. 7 dismissed claims under the Wiretap Act, the Stored Communications Act and the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act in a former law partner’s suit against his prior employer over its purported interception of his emails, finding in part that the alleged interception of emails sent to the attorney’s email address with his former employer did not violate the federal laws because the former employer owned the domain and email system and had the authority to access the emails.

AMARILLO, Texas — In separate orders, the latest of which was filed Aug. 7, a Texas federal magistrate judge denied Amazon’s motions to exclude two experts retained by a woman who says she was injured and her husband was killed in a collision with an Amazon delivery contractor’s truck, finding that Amazon can challenge the experts through cross-examination.

SEATTLE — In an Aug. 7 response to an insurer’s motion for summary judgment in an environmental contamination coverage suit, an insured urges a Washington federal court to deny the insurer’s motion because the court already answered the question of whether a state trial court’s 2016 dismissal of similar claims precludes the insured’s claims.