Pollution Exclusion Bars Coverage For Gasoline Leak, Panel Says In Reversing

(July 23, 2024, 3:44 PM EDT) -- FRANKFORT, Ky. — The Kentucky Court of Appeals reversed a trial court’s ruling entered against an insurer in a coverage dispute over damages caused by a gasoline leak because the policy’s pollution exclusion applies as a bar to coverage based on the conclusion that gasoline is a pollutant when it leaks from an underground storage tank and damages a neighboring property....