Statute Of Limitations Bars Federal Flood Insurance Claim, Majority Affirms

(June 5, 2019, 2:12 PM EDT) -- NEW ORLEANS — A majority of the Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on June 4 affirmed a lower federal court’s ruling that the National Flood Insurance Act’s one-year statute of limitations barred the insured's federal flood insurance claim arising from a May 2015 storm in Houston, finding that the insured failed to timely file his lawsuit in the correct court (Ali Ekhlassi v. National Lloyds Insurance Co., et al., No. 18-20228, 5th Cir., 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 16808)....

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