NOT PRECEDENTIAL

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE THIRD CIRCUIT

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No. 20

- 3073

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ALLEGHENY LUDLUM, LLC

, Appellant

v.

LIBERTY MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY; LIBERTY MUTUAL FIRE

INSURANCE COMPANY; HARTFORD CASUALTY INSURANCE COMPANY;

HARTFORD ACCIDENT & INDEMNITY COMPANY; CONTINENTAL

CASUALTY COMPANY * ; UNITED STATES FIDELITY & GUARANTY

COMPANY

*Party was dismissed per 1/6/21 Court Order

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On Appeal from th e United States District Court

For the Western District of Pennsylvania

( D.C. No. 2

- 17

- cv

- 01243 )

District Judge: Honorable William S. Stickman, IV

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Argued May 20, 2021

Before: McKEE , RESTREPO and FUENTES, Circuit Judges

(Opinion filed : September 14, 2021 )

Jessica Moran

David R. Osipovich

Thomas M. Reiter [Argued]

Thomas J. Smith

K&L Gates

210 Sixth Avenue

Pittsburgh, PA 15222

Counsel for Appellant2

Kathleen K. Kerns

John C. Sullivan [Argued]

Post & Schell

1600 John F. Kennedy Boulevard

Four Penn Center, 14th Floor

Philadelphia, PA 19103

Counsel for Appellees Liberty Mutual Insurance Co and Liberty Mutual Fire

Insurance Co

Timothy R. Dingilian

Myles D. Morrison

James P. Ruggeri [Argued]

Shipman & Goodwin

1875 K Street, N.W.

Suite 600

Washington, DC 20006

Patrick M. Fahey

Shipman & Goodwin

One Constitution Plaza

Hartford, CT 06103

Michael A. Shiner

Tucker Arensberg

1500 One PPG Place

Pittsburgh, PA 15222

Counsel for Appellees Hartford Casualty Insurance Co and Hartford Accident &

Indemnity Co

Rod B. McCullough

Alan S. Miller [Argued]

Houston Harbaugh

401 Liberty Avenue

22nd Floor, Thr ee Gateway Center

Pittsburgh, PA 15222

Counsel for Appellees United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co3 ________________

OPINION *

________________ McKEE

, Circuit Judge

Appellant Allegheny Ludlum , LLC appeals the D istrict C ourt ’s grant of summary

judgment to its insurers Liberty Mutual Insurance Company; Liberty Mutual Fire

Insurance Company (together “Liberty”) ; Hartford Casualty Insurance Company;

Hartford Accident & Indemnity Company (together “Hartford”) ; and United States

Fide lity & Guaranty Company (“USF&G”)

. 1 The D istrict C ourt rejected Allegheny

Ludlum’s assertion that the four

- year statute of limitations had not expired on its

declaratory judgment and bad faith claims against Appellees Liberty and Hartford

. 2

Applying the Pennsylvania Superior Court en banc decision in Selective Way Insurance

Co. v. Hospit

ality Group Services , Inc.

, 3 the D istrict C ourt determined Allegheny

Ludlum ’s cause of action accrued when the insurers denied coverage in 2010, seven years

before Allegheny Ludlum file d suit

. W e will affirm the D istrict C ourt as to the claims

against th ose insurers substantially for the reasons set forth in the D istrict C ourt ’ s

Memorandum and Order.

* This disposition is not an opinion of the full Court and pursuant to I.O.P. 5.7 does not

constitute binding precedent.

1 Appellee Continental Casualty Company was dismissed per the Court’s January 6, 202 1

o rder.

2 Allegheny Ludlum, LLC, v. Liberty Mut. Ins. Co. , 487 F. Supp. 3d 350 , 355

- 60 (W.D. Pa

2020).

3 119 A.3d 1035 (Pa. Super. 2015).4

We will also affirm the grant of summary judgment in favor of Appellee USF&G

.

The D istrict C ourt relied upon the absence of a covered “occurrence” under the policy. 4

We need not determine if there was a covered occurrence because the USF&G pollution

provision clearly excludes coverage of bodily injury that “would not have occurred but

for exposure to pollutants.” 5 I t is clear th at the plaintiffs’ claims ar o se from their

exposure to hexavalent chromium in welding fumes

, and that the D istrict C ourt correctly

identified those fumes as a pollutant within the scope of the pollution exclusion.

Accordingly, we will also affirm the D istrict C ourt ’s order as to USF &G.

4 See Allegheny Ludlum , 487 F. Supp. 3d at 360 (citing Kvaerner Metals Div. of Kvaerner

U.S., Inc. v. Comm. Union Ins. Co. , 908 A.2d 888, 897 (Pa. 2006) ).

5 Id

. at 363

.