( March 19, 2024, 11:01 AM EDT) -- XE "pollution
exclusion" NEW ORLEANS — The Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on March 18 affirmed a district court’s ruling that a pollution exclusion in a directors and officers liability policy bars coverage for underlying lawsuits alleging that the insureds illegally discharged wastewater into city sewage treatment facilities because the exclusion is not ambiguous and clearly bars coverage for the wastewater....