In Kansas, where a prolonged drought has killed crops and eroded the soil, Gail Fuller’s farm is like an oasis. Sheep, cows and chickens graze freely on crops and vegetation in a paradisiacal mess.

California plans to extend its last-resort insurance program to cover higher-value properties in areas prone to wildfire, adding new potential liabilities for the already stressed plan.

As Tom Girardi’s defense attempts, in the days before his trial, to divert blame for the theft of millions of dollars in client settlement funds onto his former CFO Christopher Kamon, a Los Angeles federal judge began creating the outline of what a jury can hear about Kamon’s alleged use of stolen funds.

A medical malpractice plaintiff can’t proceed with his federal court claim because he didn’t file an affidavit in which an expert said his case had merit, as required by Delaware state law, the Third Circuit said.

Several insurance carriers sued an international limestone company over unpaid “retrospective premiums” owed for coverage of silica-related bodily-injury claims.

Inflexion is nearing a sale of its majority stake in David Roberts & Partners in a deal that values the UK insurance broker at about £450 million ($579 million), according to people familiar with the matter.