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Insurer gets bad news in carbon monoxide wrongful death lawsuit

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Legal Newsline) - An insurance company will be brought into a wrongful death lawsuit after the Alaska Supreme Court found carbon monoxide doesn't fall under a "pollutants" exception in its policy.The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit had asked for guidance on the issue from the Alaska court, which on Feb. 28 issued its ruling in the case over the death of Josiah Wheeler.Wheeler was found dead in January 2019 in the b…