Amici Ask High Court To Grant Petition To Resolve ‘Conflict’ Involving NFIA

Mealey's (October 23, 2019, 10:12 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The National Association of Public Insurance Adjusters and the Texas Association of Public Insurance Adjusters on Oct. 7 filed an amicus curiae brief in support of an insured’s appeal of a lower court's ruling that the one-year statute of limitations under the National Flood Insurance Act (NFIA) barred his federal flood insurance claim arising from a May 2015 storm in Houston, arguing that interpreting the NFIA to “create exclusive federal jurisdiction over” lawsuits against Write Your Own insurers “is not only at odds with the statute’s plain language, but also raises serious constitutional questions” (Ali Ekhlassi v. National Lloyds Insurance Co., et al., No. 19-312, U.S. Sup.)....