( May 6, 2025, 12:23 PM EDT) -- XE "Pollution
Exclusion" XE
"Environmental Contamination" SAN FRANCISCO — The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on May 5 denied an insurer’s petition for panel rehearing in an environmental contamination coverage suit, refusing to reconsider its decision that a jury trial is necessary to determine the reasonableness of the defense costs incurred by the insured from the date of the insured’s tender of the underlying complaint through the date of the trial court’s order....