No Coverage Owed For Suit Seeking Damages For Wastewater Discharges, Judge Says

(August 12, 2024, 9:06 AM EDT) --  XE "Pollution Liability" JACKSON, Miss. — A Mississippi federal judge denied an insured’s motion for judgment on the pleadings and granted a pollution liability insurer’s motion to dismiss after determining that the Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals’ ruling in a nearly identical case forecloses the insured’s suit that seeks coverage for an underlying lawsuit alleging that the insured illegally discharged wastewater into a city sewage treatment facility....