Mealey's (August 1, 2022, 12:47 PM EDT) -- PASADENA, Calif. — The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on July 29 denied an insured’s petition for a panel rehearing of its July 8 ruling that affirmed a lower federal court’s dismissal of the insured’s action seeking defense for an underlying fraud lawsuit arising from its sale of a manufacturing facility in Mexico, rejecting the insured’s argument that the panel “overlooked or misapprehended” a material factual distinction between general “contract” and “breach of contract” exclusions....