Mealey's (June 7, 2018, 1:08 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPMDL) on June 6 denied insureds' request to transfer related lawsuits over flood claims resulting from the 2016 and 2017 hurricane seasons in Florida, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida for coordinated and consolidated pretrial proceedings, finding that the lawsuits “possess only a superficial factual commonality” (In Re: Florida, Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands 2016 and 2017 Hurricane Seasons Flood Litigation, No. 2844, JPMDL)....