Insurer Says District Court Properly Found Coverage Is Barred For Cleanup Costs

(April 4, 2024, 10:52 AM EDT) --  XE "environmental contamination" ATLANTA — A district court’s ruling that no coverage is owed to an insured for contamination cleanup costs caused by the release of petroleum and other contaminants from an underground storage tank at a gas station must be affirmed because the district court correctly found that the claim for contamination cleanup costs incepted prior to the issuance of the policy and is, therefore, barred from coverage, the insurer says in its appellee brief filed in the 11th Circuit Court of Appeal....