Mealey's (September 10, 2021, 12:59 PM EDT) -- PASADENA, Calif. — The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Sept. 7 affirmed a lower federal court’s summary judgment ruling in favor of an insurance agent in an insured’s lawsuit alleging professional negligence, finding that the professional negligence and negligent misrepresentation claims fail because the insured has failed to establish an essential element duty....