Insurance
May 29, 2009
Navigating a Wasteland of Environmental Insurance Issues
A recent ruling addressing the Stringfellow Acid Pits process that insurance policies involving pollution clauses can get quite messy.
Rex Heeseman
JAMS
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Stanford Univ Law School
Rex Heeseman retired from the Los Angeles Count Superior Court bench in 2014. He is at JAMS, Los Angeles. Besides speaking at various MCLE programs, he co-authors The Rutter Group's practice guide on "Insurance Litigation." From 2002 to 2015, he was an adjunct professor at Loyola Law School.
State of California v. Allstate Insurance Company, 2009 DJDAR 3425, addressed litigation "to obtain insurance coverage for property damage liability imposed in a federal lawsuit as a result of discharges from 'the Stringfellow Acid Pits,' a State-designed and -operated hazardous waste dispose facility." The California Supreme Court focused on certain policy terms (mainly "sudden and accidental" and "watercourse") found in some pollution exclusions.
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