Pollution Exclusion Bars Coverage For Damages Caused By Stormwater Runoff

(October 3, 2023, 9:15 AM EDT) -- ATLANTA — A Georgia federal judge granted a homebuilder liability insurer’s motion to dismiss an insured’s breach of contract suit after determining that no coverage is afforded for an underlying suit alleging property damages caused by stormwater runoff created by the insured’s construction of a townhome development because the policy’s pollution exclusion bars coverage for stormwater runoff....