Developer Appeals Pollution Exclusion Bar Ruling To 11th Circuit

Mealey's (June 29, 2022, 9:35 AM EDT) -- COLUMBUS, Ga. — An insured development company and its owner will appeal a federal judge’s final judgment in a declaratory relief action in which a federal judge ruled that the insurer is entitled to summary judgment and owes no coverage for damages resulting from sediment runoff into a neighboring pond created by the insured’s construction project based on an insurance policy’s pollution exclusion, according to a notice of appeal the defendants’ filed June 24 in Georgia federal court....