# Excess Insurance Policy

## Liberty Insurance Underwriters Inc.

**(A New York Stock Insurance Company, hereinafter the "Insurer")**

**ENDORSEMENT NO. 4**

**THIS ENDORSEMENT CHANGES THE POLICY. PLEASE READ IT CAREFULLY.**

**Named Insured:** International Business Machines Corporation  
**Policy Number:** LQ1B71078753082  
**Effective Date:** May 21, 2009

## POLLUTION LIMITATION ENDORSEMENT-FOLLOW FORM

This endorsement modifies insurance provided under the following:

**EXCESS LIABILITY POLICY**

This insurance does not apply to:

Any "loss," including but not limited to settlements, judgments, costs, charges, expenses, costs of investigations, or the fees of attorneys, experts, or consultants, arising out of or in anyway related to:

1. The actual, alleged, or threatened presence, discharge, dispersal, seepage, migration, release, or escape of "pollutants," however caused.
2. Any request, demand or order that any Insured or others test for, monitor, clean up, remove, contain, treat, detoxify, neutralize or in anyway respond to or assess the effects of "pollutants." This includes demands, directives, complaints, suits, orders or requests brought by any governmental entity or by any person or group of persons.
3. Steps taken or amounts incurred by a governmental unit or any other person or organization to test for, monitor, clean-up, remove, contain, treat, detoxify or neutralize or assess the effects of "pollutants."

This exclusion will apply to any "loss," costs, charges, or expenses, or any judgments or settlements, arising directly or indirectly out of pollution whether or not the pollution was sudden, accidental, gradual, intended, expected, unexpected, preventable or not preventable.

As used in this exclusion "pollutants" means any solid, liquid, gaseous, or thermal irritant or contaminant, including, but not limited to smoke, vapor, soot, fumes, acids, alkalis, chemicals and waste material. Waste material includes materials, which are intended to be or have been recycled, reconditioned or reclaimed.

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