Panel Affirms Denial Of Motion To Compel Arbitration Against Domestic Insurers

( September 16, 2026, 9:00 AM EDT) -- NEW ORLEANS — The Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals affirmed a lower federal court’s order denying domestic and international insurers’ motion to compel arbitration of Hurricane Ida claims against the domestic insurers, vacated the lower court’s order lifting a stay of litigation as to the domestic insurers and remanded for the lower court to reconsider whether a stay of litigation against the domestic insurers is appropriate, holding that its recent unpublished opinion in Crescent City Surgical Operating Co. v. Interstate Fire & Casualty Co. controls....