Mealey's (February 23, 2021, 1:45 PM EST) -- NEW ORLEANS — The Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Feb. 22 dismissed an insured’s appeal of a federal court’s finding that it failed to provide a sworn proof of loss that was a prerequisite for invoking the policy’s appraisal provision, finding that the lower court “ostensibly” entered a final judgment without resolving the insured’s counterclaims against the insurer or expressly ordering a partial final judgment in an appraisal dispute over hailstorm damage....