( October 20, 2026, 1:30 PM EDT) -- NEW ORLEANS — The Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals denied a professional liability insurer’s petition seeking rehearing of its appeal of a lower federal court’s grant of an insured’s motion to stay the insurer’s declaratory judgment lawsuit pending the outcome of a parallel state court proceeding, refusing to disturb the panel’s ruling that the appeal must be dismissed as moot because the federal court’s stay of the action has expired by its own terms due to a final judgment in the parallel proceeding....