( March 18, 2026, 10:48 AM EDT) -- ST. LOUIS — The Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on March 17 affirmed a federal district court’s grant of a commercial general liability insurer’s motion for judgment on the pleadings in its lawsuit seeking a declaration that it has no duty to defend or indemnify its insured for the appellant’s underlying abuse-of-process claim, holding that a reasonable person in the insured’s position would not think malicious prosecution coverage extended to abuse of process claims....