( February 16, 2024, 1:38 PM EST) -- SANTA ANA, Calif. — A suit filed by insurers seeking a declaration that their policies’ pollution exclusion bars coverage for an underlying class action alleging that an insured restaurant’s grain and salad bowls contain harmful levels of fluorine and biocides will be transferred to District of Columbia federal court because the insurance contracts were signed in the District of Columbia and the majority of the witnesses are located in the District of Columbia, a California federal judge said in granting the insured’s motion to transfer the suit....