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25-1977·INSURANCE

Navigators Specialty Insurance Company v. Avertest, LLC

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

Whether district court erred in concluding subsequently filed suit was excluded from coverage under claims-made professional liability insurance policy.

Argument Date
May 7, 2026
Argument Time
9:30 a.m.
Panel
III
Courtroom
Blue Courtroom (Room 339)
Lower Court Judge
Brinkema

Panel

Judge Gregory
Judge Thacker
Judge Benjamin

Citation

CaseNavigators Specialty Insurance Company v. Avertest, LLC, No. 25-1977 (4th Cir. argued May 7, 2026)
PanelGregory, Thacker & Benjamin, JJ.

Arguing Counsel

Panel That Day

0 of 3 cases argued May 7, 2026 before this panel have been decided.

Authorship Outlook

No opinions from this panel have been decided yet, so authorship can't be narrowed — the 3 pending opinions could come from any of the panelists.

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

Predicted Opinion Release

Likely between November 5, 2026 and August 10, 2027, with December 25, 2026 the most likely date.

Argued 174 days ago. About 80% of comparable cases would have an opinion by now — this one is trending late.

■ ■ ■Calibrated from a deep history (48 prior subject cases + 2 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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