Pollution Exclusions Bar Coverage For Judgment Against Insured, 9th Circuit Says

(March 14, 2024, 1:39 PM EDT) -- PASADENA, Calif. — A federal judge did not err in finding that the city of Los Angeles is not entitled to indemnity from two insurers for an underlying judgment obtained against a now-defunct insured because the judge properly found that the policies’ pollution exclusions bar coverage for the insured boatyard operator’s discharges of paint and other toxic materials into the city’s harbor, the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals said March 13....