October 15, 2025
An insurer for an owner and operator of Florida gas stations owes no coverage for pollution costs stemming from an underground fuel tank leak, the Eleventh Circuit ruled Wednesday, finding the owner failed to properly notify its insurer of a "pollution condition" that could result in an insurance claim.
March 07, 2025
A Florida gas station owner asked the Eleventh Circuit on Friday to revive its lawsuit trying to get Nautilus Insurance Co. to cover the costs to clean up contamination caused by a leaking underground fuel tank, telling the appeals court the company did not learn of the leak until after the policy went into effect.
April 01, 2024
An insurer has asked the Eleventh Circuit to reject a Florida gas station owner's bid to make it pay for contamination caused by a leaking underground fuel tank, telling the appeals court the station's policy doesn't cover an incident discovered well before the policy went into effect.
November 30, 2023
A Florida gas station operator urged the Eleventh Circuit to reverse a lower court's judgment relieving an insurer of covering cleanup costs for a pollution incident on the grounds that the incident was discovered before the policy's inception, maintaining the court misinterpreted "first discovered."