Insurers Seek Extension For High Court Challenge To Hurricane Claim Arbitrability

( April 9, 2026, 1:38 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A group of foreign and domestic insurers filed an application asking the U.S. Supreme Court for an extension of the deadline for filing their petition for a writ of certiorari seeking review of a Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruling barring arbitration of a hurricane damage policy dispute and denying the applicability of equitable estoppel under state law based on a new Louisiana Supreme Court ruling barring arbitration of such disputes....