Pollution Exclusion Shields Travelers In Carbon Monoxide Poisoning

A Travelers Cos. Inc. unit is not obligated to provide coverage in an incident in which carbon monoxide that flowed from a recreational fishing boat’s engine killed two men and injured a third, because of its policy’s pollution exclusion, says a federal appeals court, in affirming a lower court ruling. Christopher A. Klick and two friends, Lonnie Norbert and Jeffrey Wheeler, were aboard Mr. Norberg’s 25-foot fishing boat on Lake of the Woods in northern Minnesota in a boat that had been sold to Mr. Norberg a few weeks earlier by Baudette, Minnesota-based Rainy River Marine Inc. and a financial institution, according to Monday’s ruling by the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis in Travelers Property Casualty Co. of America v. Christopher A. Klick; Rainy River Marina Inc.