Pollution Exclusion Does Not Preclude Coverage For Suit Stemming From Breath Mints

(September 23, 2024, 1:37 PM EDT) -- ST. LOUIS — A Missouri federal judge on Sept. 20 granted a motion to dismiss an insurer’s suit seeking a declaration that no coverage is owed for an underlying suit seeking damages caused by a child’s ingestion of liquid breath mints that contained a chemical that damaged the child’s esophagus because the policy’s pollution exclusion cannot be interpreted as a bar to coverage for the underlying suit....