No Coverage Owed For Environmental Cleanup Costs, 9th Circuit Affirms

Mealey's (May 17, 2019, 12:20 PM EDT) -- SAN  FRANCISCO — An umbrella liability insurer has no duty to defend its insured against an underlying suit seeking environmental contamination XE "environmental contamination"  cleanup costs because the policy’s pollution exclusion XE "pollution exclusion"  clearly bars coverage for cleanup costs, the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals said May 16 in affirming a district court’s ruling (RLI Insurance Co. v. Visalia, No. 18-15668, 9th Cir., 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 14556)....