( February 10, 2026, 2:11 PM EST) -- NEW ORLEANS — A Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on Feb. 9 denied a group of domestic insurers’ petition for en banc rehearing of its ruling affirming that state law prohibits arbitration of insurance disputes over Louisiana hurricane damage like the one they were involved in and had said should be arbitrated pursuant to the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards (the New York Convention)....