Builder Files Notice to Appeal Pollution Exclusion Ruling to 11th Cir.

TAMPA, Fla. - KB Home Inc. has appealed a decision by a federal judge in Florida who applied Massachusetts law in determining that a pollution exclusion contained in several policies issued to a Chinese drywall supplier barred coverage for claims filed against the company. Granite State Insurance Co., et al. v. American Building Materials Inc., et al., No. 10-1542 (M.D. Fla.).

The builder filed a notice Feb. 21 in U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida, indicating its intent to ask the 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals to reverse Judge Susan C. Bucklew's Dec. 5 award of …