( August 20, 2026, 1:37 PM EDT) -- NEW ORLEANS — The Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Aug. 19 dismissed as moot a professional liability insurer’s 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, holding that because there is a final judgment in the parallel proceeding, the federal court’s stay in the present action has expired by its own terms....