Aircraft Insurance Policy Is Ambiguous, 5th Circuit Rules, Reverses Summary Judgment

( March 16, 2026, 11:52 AM EDT) -- NEW ORLEANS — The Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals reversed a lower federal court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of an insurer in a lawsuit seeking recovery of a $6.4 million underlying judgment arising from a rented plane that crashed into a communications tower and caused two fatalities, concluding that the aircraft insurance policy is ambiguous....