Insurance

The court holds that carbon monoxide emitted from a malfunctioning residential heater is not a pollutant under the pollution exclusion clause of a comprehensive general liability policy, and, thus…

The court affirms a lower court holding that a pollution exclusion clause in a warehouse owner's commercial general liability insurance policy excludes coverage of contamination from xylene…

The court upholds the reversal of a trial court's grant of judgment notwithstanding the verdict (JNOV) in favor of a chemical manufacturer that was denied insurance coverage for soil,…

The court holds that losses from environmental injury claims involving decades of commercial activities at numerous industrial and waste disposal sites may not be aggregated as a single disaster…

The court affirmed a district court holding that pollution exclusion clauses in two comprehensive general liability policies issued by an insurer to an Oregon lumber company precluded the insurer…

The court holds that most of a company's claimed losses arising from the need to repair defective pipe welds that a laboratory had failed to discover were not property damages covered by the…

The court holds that an administrative law judge (ALJ) properly reallocated responsibility for paying a pipefitter's medical and disability payments from an insurance company to the…

The court holds that a manufactured gas plant operator was not entitled to coverage for cleanup costs it incurred in connection with a contaminated area near the Merrimack River in New Hampshire…

The court holds that an insurer's duty to indemnify an insured under a standard comprehensive general liability (CGL) insurance policy does not extend to fines imposed on the insured by state…

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…