Focus (Forum & Focus)
Mar. 20, 2009
Sorting Out a Liability Mess
Two recent decisions touch on the law governing the protection of the environment and the obligations of insurers.
FOCUS COLUMN
By Stephen N. Goldberg In State of California v. Allstate Insurance Company, 2009 DJDAR 3425 (March 9, 2009), the California Supreme Court reversed a trial court's grant of summary judgment for a handful of insurance carriers who refused to defend the state against and indemnify it for liabilities arising from an infamous toxic waste site - the Stringfellow Acid Pits. Neither this opinion, nor another in the same matter handed ...For only $95 a month (the price of 2 article purchases)
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