Federal Judge Adopts Report, Recommendation Based On Policy’s Pollution Exclusion

Mealey's (March 5, 2020, 4:19 PM EST) -- PITTSBURGH — A federal judge in Pennsylvania on March 3 adopted a magistrate’s report and recommendation to grant an insurer’s motion for summary judgment as to her finding that an insurance policy’s “pollutants” exclusion applies to preclude coverage for a black powder that contaminated the insured’s property but declined to adopt the report and recommendation as to the issue of covered accidental physical loss (Vale Vista Associates L.P. v. The Cincinnati Casualty Co., No. 18-1064, W.D. Pa., 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 36180)....