Missouri Panel: PCOH Exclusion Bars Coverage For Suits Arising From Opioid Epidemic

( July 29, 2026, 9:08 AM EDT) -- ST. LOUIS — A Missouri appeals court affirmed a lower court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of insurers in a coverage lawsuit brought by a trust that was created in a bankruptcy proceeding for the benefit of individuals harmed by major producers of opioid pharmaceutical products, agreeing with the lower court that the products-completed operations hazard (PCOH) exclusion barred coverage....