( May 16, 2025, 12:10 PM EDT) -- ST. LOUIS — The Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals affirmed a lower federal court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of an insurer in an insured’s assignee’s breach of contract and bad faith lawsuit arising from storm damage, concluding that the insured sought “to advance a novel agency theory on appeal” but there is no reason for the insured’s failure to raise this argument in the lower court and “no manifest injustice in this court declining to entertain the argument for the first time on appeal.”...