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An unsuccessful attempt to profit can still matter in a forced-labor case
The Ninth Circuit’s 2026 Ratha decision connects a seafood supply chain, a congressional amendment and the reopening of a judgment.
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Pennsylvania rejects a blanket insurance bar for trafficking allegations
The state Supreme Court’s Samsung decision separates public policy from the policy language that determines coverage.
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A.G. v. Northbrook Industries, Inc.
The Eleventh Circuit vacated summary judgments on beneficiary claims, explaining what additional evidence can support participation beyond ordinary room rentals and rejecting a specific-victim knowledge requirement.
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Samsung Fire and Marine Insurance Co. v. RI Settlement Trust
Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court rejected a categorical public-policy bar to defense or indemnity for allegations of enabling or profiting from sex trafficking. Policy-specific coverage remained a separate question.
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Northfield Insurance Co. v. North Brook Industries, Inc.
The Eleventh Circuit dismissed the insurer’s appeal for lack of jurisdiction. It did not decide the policy-coverage merits.
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Ratha v. Rubicon Resources, LLC
The Ninth Circuit applied the 2023 amendment retroactively and sent the forced-labor case back for further proceedings. Ultimate liability remained for the district court.
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J.G. v. Northfield Insurance Co.
This is an unpublished per curiam decision about intervention, not a coverage holding. The Eleventh Circuit held Northfield’s intervention motion untimely and dismissed its appeal for want of jurisdiction; it did not decide the policy’s bodily-injury or false-imprisonment terms, the ultimate duty to defend, or indemnity. The duty-to-defend and unripe-indemnity conclusions described in the opinion were the district court’s rulings in the separate Coverage Lawsuit, and the opinion states that Northfield could continue litigating coverage there.
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A hotel trafficking judgment faces a challenge over knowledge and proof
An Arizona hotel trafficking judgment faces a pending reconsideration request. Read what the order decided, what the plaintiff contests and how Northbrook differs.
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An emergency stay denied in the GEO forced-labor case
The Tenth Circuit declined to pause proceedings in Menocal. The short order resolves the request for a stay, without deciding whether GEO is liable.
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Why the M.M. hotel-trafficking case stayed in its original court
An Ohio court denied a hotel operator’s transfer request, emphasizing judicial economy and the limits of generalized convenience arguments.
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