Panel Certifies Filed-Rate Doctrine Questions To Washington Supreme Court

Mealey's (January 5, 2021, 2:28 PM EST) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on Dec. 31 declined to weigh in on a force-placed insurance dispute between a borrower and his mortgage loan servicer that asked the panel to determine whether the filed-rate doctrine bars the borrower from suing the loan servicer for overcharging him for the insurance policy in question and instead asked the Washington Supreme Court to weigh in on the issue before the panel issued any opinion on the matter....