( October 21, 2025, 2:01 PM EDT) -- NEW ORLEANS — The Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Oct. 20 reversed a lower federal court’s dismissal of a well operator’s claims that a commercial general liability insurer has a duty to defend and indemnify its oilfield services company insured against an underlying dispute arising from well damage, finding that the insurer waived the policy’s consent-to-suit requirement and that the fact that the assignee could not recover from the insured or its bankruptcy assets does not preclude its duty to indemnify claim against the insurer....