Pollution Exclusion Bars Coverage For Underlying Wastewater Discharge Suits

Mealey's ( December 12, 2022, 3:22 PM EST) -- JACKSON, Miss. — A directors and officers liability insurer has no duty to defend or indemnify its insureds in underlying lawsuits alleging that the insureds illegally discharged wastewater into city sewage treatment facilities because the policy’s pollution exclusion clearly bars coverage, a Mississippi federal judge said in granting the insurer’s motion for summary judgment....