Editor's Note: Steven A. Meyerowitz, Esq., is the Director of FC&S Legal and the Editor-in-Chief of the Insurance Coverage Law Report. He can be reached at [email protected]. FC&S Legal, like National Underwriter Property & Casualty and PropertyCasualty360.com are products of Summit Professional Networks.

A total pollution exclusion endorsement in a commercial general liability insurance policy negated an insurance carrier's obligation to defend or indemnify a contractor sued in a “Chinese drywall” case.

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