( October 8, 2026, 8:05 AM EDT) -- RICHMOND, Va. — Insurers and Baltimore County, Md., appealed to the Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals a Maryland federal judge’s ruling that granted in part and denied in part a motion for judgment on the pleadings by the owner and technical manager of the ship that allided with and destroyed the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore in 2024, a ruling that significantly narrowed the scope of the purely economic loss claims that will proceed in the movants’ exoneration lawsuit....