Duty to defend

A district court held that response costs a Canadian zinc producer incurred pursuant to a settlement agreement with EPA constitute "damages" under its insurance policies. Although the…

The Wisconsin Supreme Court held that an insurance company must defend a manufacturing company in an underlying contamination case even though the company's policy was a indemnity-only excess…

A district court held that an insurance company has a duty to defend a shooting range operator in an underlying CWA, RCRA, and nuisance lawsuit concerning the discharge of lead shot into the…

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 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 upheld summary judgment against one insurance company and in favor of another insurance company in a dispute concerning the insurers' duties to defend a manufacturer against a third…

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 Fifth Circuit upheld a district court decision holding that an insurer had a duty to defend an oil company in an underlying suit in which the company was alleged to have polluted a nearby…

The court affirms a lower court decision that an insurer had no duty to defend a scrap metal processing and recycling company in an administrative action brought against it by the Pennsylvania…

The court holds that a manufacturer that lost its original insurance policies from 1963 to 1965 provided sufficient secondary evidence to prove that the terms of the policies required the insurer…