Prime Tanning Co. v. Liberty Mutual Insurance Co.

ELR Citation: 40 ELR 20023
No(s). CV-09-359-B (D. Me. Nov 10, 2010)

A district court held that an insurer has no duty to defend or indemnify a leather tanning company in underlying lawsuits brought by farmers who used sludge from the company's tanning activities as fertilizer. The sludge, which the company applied on the farms free of charge to avoid landfilling fee...