Pollution Exclusions Clearly Bar Coverage For Underlying Water Contamination Judgment

(January 13, 2017, 8:14 AM EST) -- ST. LOUIS  — A Missouri federal judge did not err in granting three insurers’ motions for judgment on the pleadings in a suit filed by a class representative seeking to satisfy an $82 million judgment entered against the insured for damages arising out of water contamination, the Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals said Jan. 12, noting that radium is clearly barred by the policies’ pollution exclusion (Barbara Williams v. Employers Mutual Casualty Co., No. 15-3573, 8th Cir.)....

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