Mealey's (January 7, 2022, 2:13 PM EST) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on Jan. 6 dismissed an appeal filed by a borrower in a force-placed insurance dispute with his mortgage loan servicer in which the borrower 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, saying the borrower failed to comply with the panel’s order to show cause why the appeal should not be dismissed....