City Claims Insurer Has Duty To Indemnify For Judgment In Contamination Suit

Mealey's (June 13, 2022, 1:06 PM EDT) --  XE "Environmental Contamination" SAN FRANCISCO — A district court erred in finding that an insurer has no duty to indemnify a city on behalf of its insured for a judgment entered against the insured in an underlying environmental contamination dispute because the releases of contaminants into the groundwater are not excluded by the policies’ pollution exclusion and the releases were not expected or intended by the insured, the city contends in a June 8 appellant brief filed in the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals....