Pollution Exclusion Bars Coverage For Contaminant Dispersed Within Swine Feed

(July 17, 2017, 12:22 PM EDT) -- MINNEAPOLIS — A Minnesota federal judge July 14 granted a motion for judgment on the pleadings filed by an insurer after determining that a policy’s pollution exclusion bars coverage for contaminated fat products supplied to a pork producer because the pollution exclusion applies to the contaminant that was dispersed within the supplied fat products fed to the pork producer’s swine (Restaurant Recycling LLC, v. New Fashion Pork LLP, intervenor plaintiff, v. Employer Mutual Casualty Company, d/b/a EMC Insurance Companies and Hamilton Mutual Insurance Company, No. 17-7, D. Minn., 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 109755)....

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