Panel Denies Jewelry Store Owner’s Rehearing Petition In COVID-19 Coverage Suit

Mealey's (October 19, 2022, 10:50 AM EDT) -- NEW ORLEANS — The Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Oct. 18 denied a jewelry store owner insured’s petition seeking a rehearing of its Sept. 20 ruling affirming a lower court’s dismissal of the insured’s negligence, breach of contract and bad faith claims against a commercial property insurer, agent and wholesale broker, refusing to disturb its finding that the insured did not incur a covered loss or damages under the policy and the agent and broker did not violate a duty to advise him about pandemic-related coverage....