( January 3, 2023, 9:37 AM EST) -- XE "Environmental Contamination" SAN FRANCISCO — A district court properly found that an insurer has no duty to indemnify a city on behalf of its insured for a judgment entered against the insured in an underlying environmental contamination dispute because the releases of contaminants into the groundwater are excluded by the policies’ pollution exclusion XE "pollution exclusion" as the releases were expected and intended by the insured, the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals said....