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25-1220·CIVIL

Nautilus Insurance Company v. Cory Fleming

Status
  1. Scheduled
  2. Argued (current)
  3. Opinion Issued
Question Presented

Multi-issue appeal from grant of summary judgment, denial of directed verdict on insurance fraud and related claims.

Argument Date
September 17, 2026
Argument Time
8:30 a.m.
Panel
III
Courtroom
Blue Courtroom (Room 339)
Lower Court Judge
Gergel

Panel

Judge Wilkinson
Judge King
Judge Rushing

Citation

CaseNautilus Insurance Company v. Cory Fleming, No. 25-1220 (4th Cir. argued Sept. 17, 2026)
PanelWilkinson, King & Rushing, JJ.

Arguing Counsel

Panel That Day

2 of 4 cases argued September 17, 2026 before this panel have been decided.

Authorship Outlook

2 opinions remain pending on this panel day. The remaining opinions could come from any panelist who hasn't already been credited with a sibling.

2 of the 4 opinions from this panel have been decided.

This is a statistical guess based on prior sittings in this dataset, not a prediction of the ruling.

Predicted Opinion Release

Likely between November 6, 2026 and August 15, 2027, with December 28, 2026 the most likely date.

Argued 41 days ago. Comparable cases at this stage almost always still pending — there's no useful tightening yet.

■ ■ □Calibrated (560 prior subject cases + 7 prior panel cases)

80% predictive interval from a log-logistic accelerated-failure-time model fit on 2,134 prior decided cases plus 111 currently-pending cases as right-censored evidence. Updates as days pass with no opinion. How this is calculated →

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