Mealey's (March 16, 2023, 1:46 PM EDT) -- PASADENA, Calif. — The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on March 15 reversed a lower federal court’s dismissal of a professional liability insurer’s lawsuit seeking a declaration that it has no duty to indemnify its law firm insured against underlying malicious prosecution claims and reimbursement of amounts that it paid for the insured’s underlying defense, finding that the lower court erred in finding that California Insurance Code Section 533 did not apply to bar coverage....