A district court held that an insurance company has a duty to defend the former owners and operators of a nuclear waste facility in EPA's CERCLA action against them for remediation costs…
A district court held that under Florida law, a pollution exclusion contained in a swimming pool's insurance policy unambiguously applies to harmful microbes allegedly present in the pool. As…
A California appellate court affirmed a lower court decision that an insurer has no duty to defend or indemnify a metal coating company in underlying proceedings filed against it concerning soil…
The Supreme Court of California affirmed in part and reversed in part an appellate court decision reversing a trial court's grant of summary judgment in favor of excess insurance companies in…
The Fifth Circuit reversed a lower court decision ruling that homeowners were entitled to the full amount of their insurance policy for severe flood damage sustained during Hurricane Katrina. The…
The Eleventh Circuit held an insurance company need not provide legal defense to its insured, an engineering firm, in an underlying lawsuit alleging that it negligently failed to discover…
An Ohio appellate court held that the sudden and accidental exceptions to pollution exclusion clauses contained in an aerospace manufacturing company's excess commercial insurance policies…
The Alaska Supreme Court held that gasoline leaked from the broken fill pipe of an underground storage tank (UST) is a "pollutant" under the absolute pollution exclusion contained in the…
A district court held that under Oregon law, a pollution exclusion clause bars coverage for unintended water contamination stemming from a company's intentional discharge of thorium into a…
A district court held that an oil company's claims against its insurer for the costs of cleaning up and redeveloping a parcel of land on the shore of the Sakonnet River in Rhode Island under…