Mealey's (January 13, 2020, 12:12 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court on Jan. 13 denied an insured's petition for certiorari seeking review of a Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals’ majority ruling that the one-year statute of limitations under the National Flood Insurance Act (NFIA) barred his federal flood insurance claim arising from a May 2015 storm in Houston (Ali Ekhlassi v. National Lloyds Insurance Co., et al., No. 19-312, U.S. Sup.)....