( July 18, 2025, 1:48 PM EDT) -- PASEDENA, Calif. — The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals affirmed a lower federal court’s ruling that a commercial insurer has no duty to indemnify a convicted felon for a $58.5 million underlying state court judgment for his mishandling of donated bodies, finding that the appellants are collaterally estopped from relitigating the issue of the felon’s relationship with the insured company....