Carrier Seeks Reformation Of Policy To Include An Intended Pollution Exclusion

(March 21, 2017, 12:15 PM EDT) -- ATLANTA — No coverage is owed for contamination claims arising out of the operation of a battery plant because the underlying claim against the insured did not meet the policy’s deductible and a pollution exclusion, inadvertently left out of the policy through mutual mistake, precludes coverage, an insurer argues in a March 15 motion for summary judgment filed in Georgia federal court (ACE American Insurance Co. v. Exide Technologies Inc., et al., No. 16-1600, N.D. Ga.)....