Panel: Filed-Rate Doctrine Bars ‘Kickback Scheme’ Suit Against Flood Insurers, Bank

Mealey's (March 18, 2022, 1:11 PM EDT) -- NEW YORK — The Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on March 15 affirmed a lower federal court’s finding that the filed-rate doctrine bars an attorney’s lawsuit alleging a bank and insurers participated in a “kickback scheme” that resulted in him being overcharged for flood insurance....