Pollution Exclusion Bars Coverage For Injury Caused By Construction Dust

(April 20, 2021, 9:27 AM EDT) -- ATLANTA — A commercial general liability insurer owes no duty to defend or indemnify its insured construction company in an underlying personal injury suit arising out of the accumulation of construction dust in the underlying plaintiff’s apartment because the policy’s pollution exclusion bars coverage for the dust, which qualifies as a pollutant under the pollution exclusion, a Georgia federal judge said March 30 in granting the insurer’s motion for summary judgment....