(February 14, 2020, 6:54 PM EST) -- NEW YORK — An arbitration ruling in favor of an insured for underlying groundwater contamination liabilities must be vacated because the excess policy’s pollution exclusion clearly bars coverage and the arbitration panel’s nullification of a portion of the pollution exclusion constitutes a manifest disregard of the law, an excess insurer contends in a Jan. 23 motion to vacate the arbitration ruling (HDI Global SE, f/k/a HDI-Gerling Industrie Versicherung AG, v. Phillips 66 Co., No. 20-631, S.D. N.Y.)....