Insurer Claims It Has No Duty To Indemnify Insured For $300M Settlement

(February 26, 2019, 10:37 AM EST) -- ST. LOUIS — In a Feb. 14 motion for summary judgment, an insurer claims that it has no duty to indemnify its insured for a $300 million settlement of underlying bodily injury claims stemming from the insured’s lead-smelting operations because the underlying claims were filed after the policies at issue expired and because the claims are precluded by the policies’ pollution exclusions (Zurich American Insurance Co. v. Fluor Corp., et al., No. 16-429, E.D.  Mo.)....