Louisiana Federal Judge Says Exclusions For Pollution, Silica Do Not Bar Coverage

(November 29, 2016, 11:24 AM EST) -- NEW ORLEANS — A Louisiana federal judge on Nov. 23 denied an insurer’s motions for summary judgment on the duty to defend and indemnify an insured and an additional insured against two underlying suits filed by neighboring residents of an insured shipyard after determining that the insurer failed to prove that the policy’s exclusions for health hazard, silica or pollution bar coverage for the underlying suits (Hanover Insurance Co. v. Superior Labor Services Inc., et al., No. 11-2375 c/w 14-1930, 14-1933, 16-2490, E.D. La.; 2016 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 162480)....

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