Subsidence Exclusion Bars Coverage For Claims Arising From Landslide, Panel Affirms

Mealey's (March 14, 2022, 1:47 PM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on March 11 affirmed a lower federal court’s ruling that an insurance policy’s “Subsidence Exclusion” unambiguously precludes any possibility of coverage for underlying claims against a landscaper insured arising from a catastrophic landslide, finding that all of the injuries connected to the underlying complaints “aris[e], in whole or part, out of . . . ‘earth movement.’”...