A district court held that an insurance company need not defend the owner of a landfill in an underlying CERCLA suit for recovery costs. The policy provided coverage for "wrongful entry,…
The Eighth Circuit affirmed a lower court decision that insurers had no duty to defend or indemnify an oil refinery in an underlying CERCLA lawsuit filed against it by EPA. EPA sent the refinery a…
A district court held that certain consulting costs an oil company incurred in mitigating and remediating a methyl tertiary butyl ether spill in Fort Montgomery, New York, do not qualify as…
The court held that a lower court properly denied power companies' motions to compel their insurer to pay all past and future defense costs incurred in responding to a federal lawsuit under…
The court holds that an insurer providing a liability policy that covers damage to tangible property on the insureds' premises has no duty to defend the insureds in an easement dispute. The…
The court upholds the dismissal of a transporter company's claim that its insurer breached its duty under a marine insurance policy to defend and indemnify the company in a qui tam action…
Applying Missouri law, the court holds that insurers had a duty to defend a college in a trespass claim against its neighbor. The neighbor filed negligence and trespass claims against the college…
The court holds that a state environmental agency order notifying an insured that it is a potentially responsible party (PRP) for pollution and requiring remediation is not a "suit"…
The court holds that the insurer of a dry cleaning equipment manufacturer has no duty-to-defend the manufacturer for claims arising out of perchloroethylene (perc) contamination caused by the…
The court holds that insurers have no duty to indemnify or defend an insured against Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act and state-law claims brought by New York…