Source: https://riskandinsurance.com/, April 5, 2026

After discovering a piece of broken glass embedded in its grass sports field, Oak Knoll School of The Holy Child filed a claim with its insurer, Utica National Insurance Group. 

The school believed that this contaminant clean-up should be covered under its policy, pointing to a pollution coverage provision that stated, “We [the insurance company] will pay your expense to extract ‘pollutants’ from [school] land.”  Read more.