5th Circuit Affirms Rulings In Insurers’ Favor In Suit Over Flood, UM Claims

Mealey's (July 13, 2021, 11:45 AM EDT) -- NEW ORLEANS — The Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on July 12 affirmed a lower federal court’s summary judgment rulings in favor of a federal flood insurer and a homeowners insurer in a Louisiana insured’s lawsuit arising from 2016 flood and a 2017 motor vehicle accident, finding that the insured’s failure to discernibly challenge the lower court’s rulings forfeits any challenge to the orders and that the lower court committed no reversible error....