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<title>Insurer Has Duty To Defend; Sanitizer Is Not A Pollutant, Panel Says</title>
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<![CDATA[DETROIT - An insurer has a duty to defend an insured against claims that a sanitizing agent caused injuries to the occupants of a home where the chemical was used because there is a genuine issue of material fact as to whether the sanitizing agent is a pollutant pursuant to the policy's definition of the term, the First District Michigan Court of Appeals said Nov. 24 (Hastings Mutual Insurance Co. v. Safety King Inc., et al., No. 286392, Mich. App., 1st Dist.; 2009 Mich. App. LEXIS 2448). 
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<title>Direct Action Against Insurer Cannot Be Pursued, Arizona Federal Judge Says</title>
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<![CDATA[PHOENIX - A direct action against a gasoline retailer's insurer cannot be maintained by the personal representative of an employee who died as a result of inhaling toxic fumes while inspecting underground gasoline storage tanks because the claimant must first pursue a claim in workers' compensation court and the policy's employee exclusion precludes coverage, an Arizona federal judge said Nov. 24 in dismissing the suit (Tracy O. Dumas v. American International Specialty Lines Insurance Co., No. 09-1240, D. Ariz.). 
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<title>Insurer Owes Coverage For Settlement Of Damage Assessment, Judge Says</title>
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<![CDATA[NEW YORK - An insurer owes coverage for the settlement of an environmental contamination assessment because none of the environmental liability policy's provisions excludes coverage for the settlement, a New York federal judge said Nov. 20 in granting the insured's motion for summary judgment (Ispat Inland Inc. v. Kemper Environmental Ltd., No. 05 Civ. 5401, S.D. N.Y.; 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 108634; See 8/9/07, Page 16). 
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<title>Carrier Is Not Required To Produce Documents Requested By Insured</title>
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<![CDATA[CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - An Iowa federal magistrate judge on Nov. 19 granted insurers' motion for a protective order regarding an insured's requests for other lawsuits filed against the insurers because the request would require the insurers to disclose confidential information pertaining to companies with no interest in the insured's lawsuit (Penford Corp., et al. v. National Union Fire Insurance Company of Pittsburgh, PA, et al., No. 09-13, N.D. Iowa; 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 108370). 
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<title>Judge: Structural Damage Is Not Covered Under Policy's Collapse, D&amp;O Provisions</title>
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<![CDATA[NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Structural damages to townhouses in an insured's residential development do not fall under a condominium association insurance policy's coverage for collapse and directors and officers liability, a Tennessee federal judge held Nov. 20, granting the insurer's motion for summary judgment (Huntingdon Ridge Townhouse Homeowners Association Inc. v. QBE Insurance Corp., et al., No. 3:09-cv-00071, M.D. Tenn., Nashville Div.; 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 108558). 
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<title>Insurer Owed Duty To Defend And Indemnify Insured, Panel Determines</title>
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<![CDATA[NEW ORLEANS - A commercial general liability insurer had a duty to defend and indemnify its insured in an underlying complaint because the insured successfully demonstrated that the property damage at issue was caused by an occurrence as required under the policy, the Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals said Nov. 19 (Martco Limited Partnership v. Wellons Inc. d/b/a Wellons USA, No. 08-31248, 5th Cir.; 2009 U.S. App. LEXIS 25428; See 12/11/08, Page 7). 
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<title>Flintkote Insurers File Objections, Say They Have Standing To Pursue Discovery</title>
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<![CDATA[WILMINGTON, Del. - Two insurers on Nov. 10 filed separate objections in a Delaware bankruptcy court, protesting a summary judgment motion filed by Flintkote Co. and Flintkote Mines (collectively, Flintkote) that challenges whether the insurers have standing to pursue discovery related to Flintkote's plan of reorganization in its Chapter 11 bankruptcy (In re: The Flintkote Company and Flintkote Mines Limited, No. 04-11300, D. Del. Bkcy.). 
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<title>Insurers File Objections To Congoleum's Plan Of Reorganization</title>
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<![CDATA[NEWARK, N.J. - In separate briefs, two groups of insurance companies on Nov. 6 filed briefs in the New Jersey federal court overseeing Congoleum Corp's Chapter 11 bankruptcy objecting to the company's proposed plan of reorganization (In re: Congoleum Corp., No. 09-1337, D. N.J.). 
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<title>Potential For Coverage Exists For Environmental Action, Judge Determines</title>
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<![CDATA[SPOKANE, Wash. - A Washington federal judge on Nov. 13 determined that two insurers breached their duty to defend an insured in an underlying environmental contamination action because a potential for coverage exists under the policies and the pollution exclusion does not necessarily preclude coverage (Newmont USA Ltd., et al. v. American Home Assurance Co., et al., No. 09-33, E.D. Wash.; 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 106585; See 7/8/09, Page 11). 
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<title>Judge: No Waiver Of Sovereign Immunity Exists To Allow Interpleader</title>
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<![CDATA[KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - Although an insurer can establish subject matter jurisdiction for its claims against the federal government under 28 U.S. Code Section 1335 stemming from an environmental coverage case, the federal defendants are immune from the claims by sovereign immunity, and no valid waiver of sovereign immunity exists that would allow the insurer to interplead the federal defendants, a Tennessee federal judge found Nov. 19, granting the federal defendants' motion to dismiss (Bituminous Casualty Corp. v. Walden Resources LLC, et al., No. 3:09-CV-60, E.D. Tenn.; 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 108283). 
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<title>Mercury Contamination Suits Are Not Excluded From Coverage, Federal Judge Says</title>
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<![CDATA[NEWARK, N.J. - Because exposure to indoor contaminants, such as mercury, is not traditional environmental pollution as defined by the New Jersey Supreme Court and an insurer's absolute pollution exclusion only precludes coverage for traditional environmental pollution, an insurer's reliance on the exclusion to deny coverage for underlying mercury contamination suits was misplaced, a New Jersey federal judge said Nov. 12 (Becky Baughman, et al. v. United States Liability Insurance Co., No. 08-2901, D. N.J.; 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 106400). 
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<title>Insurer Must Produce Information On Pollution Exclusion, Magistrate Says</title>
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<![CDATA[NEW YORK - An insurer must produce documents pertaining to its policies' pollution exclusion clauses because the insurer raised the pollution exclusion as a defense in response to an insured's complaint seeking coverage for lawsuits arising from an outbreak of Legionnaires' disease on a cruise ship, a New York federal magistrate judge said Nov. 16 (Pentair Water Treatment [OH] Co. v. The Continental Insurance Co., et al., No. 08-3604, S.D. N.Y.; 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 106424; See 7/29/09, Page 12). 
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<title>Maryland High Court Rules Housing Agency's Immunity Is Limited</title>
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<![CDATA[ANNAPOLIS, Md. - The Maryland Court of Appeals on Nov. 17 ruled that a housing authority was immune from a tort action when it exhausted its insurance coverage, but was not protected from a common-law action under the state's consumer protection act (Devonte A. Brooks v. Housing Authority of Baltimore City, No. 14, Sept. Term 2008, Md. App.; 2009 Md. LEXIS 848). 
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<title>Judge: Fact Issues Remain On Amount Of Covered Damage</title>
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<![CDATA[MIAMI - A genuine dispute exists regarding how much water damage to a construction site a contractor's commercial general liability insurance policy covers, a Florida federal judge ruled Nov. 16, also finding that the contractor is not an additional insured under a separate insurance policy issued to a subcontractor (Rolyn Cos. Inc. v. R&amp;J Sales of Texas Inc. d/b/a Precision Restoration &amp; Roofing, et al., No. 08-61618, S.D. Fla.; 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 106881). 
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<title>No Coverage For Claims Stemming From Garage Collapse, Panel Says</title>
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<![CDATA[PHILADELPHIA - A primary and excess liability policy's professional services exclusion bars coverage for underlying claims stemming from a garage collapse that killed four people and injured others, the Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals affirmed Nov. 18 (Wimberly Allison Tong &amp; Goo Inc. v. Travelers Property Casualty Company of America, et al., No. 08-2976, 3rd Cir.). 
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<title>Federal Judge Says Insured's Loss Not A Covered Collapse</title>
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<![CDATA[ST. LOUIS - Under Missouri law, the partial failure of a brick veneer is not a collapse of a part of an insured's building, a Missouri federal judge ruled Nov. 12, finding that no coverage existed because the insurer cited a faulty design or construction exclusion (Council Tower Association v. Axis Specialty Insurance Co., No. 08-1605, E.D. Mo.; 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 105673). 
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<title>Coverage For Landslide Damage Excluded Regardless Of Cause, Calif. Panel Affirms</title>
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<![CDATA[SAN DIEGO - A policy exclusion explicitly precludes coverage for property damage caused by a landslide regardless of whether the landslide was caused by the insured's negligence, a California appeals panel affirmed Nov. 20 (City of Carlsbad, et al. v. Insurance Company of the State of Pennsylvania, No. D053843, Calif. App., 4th Dist., Div. 1; 2009 Cal. App. Unpub. LEXIS 9238). 
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<title>Insurers Owe Coverage For Suits Arising Out Of Aerial Spraying, Judge Says</title>
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<![CDATA[WILMINGTON, Del. - Insurer defendants owe a duty to defend an insured against bodily injury claims arising out of the insured's aerial spraying of chemicals, a Delaware judge said Nov. 9, determining that a pollution exclusion does not apply to the insured's spraying of chemicals (DynCorp International LLC v. Underwriters at Lloyd's, London, et al., No. 08C-09-218, Del. Super., New Castle Co.; 2009 Del. Super. LEXIS 412). 
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<title>Insured Appeals Ruling On Absolute Pollution Exclusion Dispute</title>
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<![CDATA[PITTSBURGH - An insured is appealing a Pennsylvania federal judge's Oct. 7 ruling that it failed to show that its insurers made a statement regarding the absolute pollution exclusion to a regulatory agency that is opposite from the position argued in the course of the coverage lawsuit (Hussey Copper Ltd. v. Royal Insurance Company of America, et al., No. 07-758, W.D. Pa.; 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 81830; See 9/16/09, Page 9). 
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<title>Parties Reach Confidential Settlement In Pollution Liability Coverage Dispute</title>
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<![CDATA[HOUSTON - Parties to a pollution liability coverage dispute entered into a confidential settlement and mutual release after a Texas federal judge determined that an insured owes more than one deductible because underlying suits filed against an insured allege more than one pollution condition (Pennzoil-Quaker State Co. v. American International Specialty Lines Insurance Co., No. H-08-2025, S.D. Texas; See 9/16/09, Page 4). 
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<title>Insured Would Not Be Prejudiced If Coverage Suit Moves Forward, Judge Says</title>
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<![CDATA[SEATTLE - Because an insured failed to prove that its notice of an underlying environmental contamination suit was timely and because the insured failed to prove that it would be prejudiced if the coverage suit moved forward, a Washington federal judge on Nov. 9 denied the insured's motion to dismiss and granted the insurer's motion for summary judgment (Bank of America v. Travelers Indemnity Co., et al., No. C07-0322RSL, W.D. Wash.; 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 103914; See 9/16/09, Page 8). 
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<title>Justice Permits Equitas To Use Actuarial Models To Establish Reinsurance Losses</title>
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<![CDATA[LONDON - An English commercial justice on Nov. 11 ruled that Equitas Ltd. may rely on actuarial models to establish the properly recoverable minimum losses under retrocessional excess of loss reinsurance policies involving claims that included the Exxon Valdez oil spill (Equitas Ltd. v. R&amp;Q Reinsurance Co. [UK] Ltd., No. 1418; Equitas Ltd. v. ACE European Group Ltd., No. 1420, English High, Comm., QBD). 
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<title>Insurer Must Pay For Sinkhole Repairs Within 60 Days, Appeals Panel Says</title>
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<![CDATA[DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - An insurer is required to pay its insureds for sinkhole repairs within 60 days of an appraisal award in favor of the insureds, the Fifth District Florida Court of Appeal said Nov. 6, determining that the policy language is binding over a permissive state statute (State Farm Florida Insurance Co. v. Boyd Nichols, et al., Nos. 5D08-2873, 4199, 4200, 4201, 4202, Fla. App.; 5th Dist.). 
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<title>Insurers Say Reinsurer Owes Them More Than $535,000 From Asbestos Claims</title>
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<![CDATA[PROVIDENCE, R.I. - A pair of insurers on Oct. 26 sued a reinsurer in the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island, claiming that the reinsurer owes them more than $535,000 for amounts they allegedly paid to a number companies for claims related to bodily injury as a result of asbestos exposure (Seaton Insurance Company, formerly known as Unigard Mutual Insurance Company, et al. v. Clearwater Insurance Company formerly known as Skandia America Reinsurance Corporation, No. 09-cv-00516, D. R.I.). 
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<title>Issues Of Fact Exist As To Whether Disease Was Caused By Use Of Bus</title>
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<![CDATA[SAN ANTONIO - Because questions of fact exist regarding whether students were infected with tuberculosis as a result of the use of an insured bus whose driver unknowingly had tuberculosis, summary judgment against the insurer must be reversed, the Fifth District Texas Court of Appeals said Nov. 4 (Lancer Insurance Co. v. Oscar Perez II, et al., No. 04-08-839, Texas App., 4th Dist.; 2009 Tex. App. LEXIS 8445). 
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<title>Liver Damage Victim Wins $4M Ruling Against Manufacturer's Insurer</title>
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<![CDATA[MIAMI - A woman who required a liver transplant after using the energy supplement Up Your Gas won a $4 million declaration on Nov. 9 in a Florida federal court that the policy James River Insurance Co. issued to the manufacturer does not contain a policy date based on occurrence but based on claims made (James River Insurance Company v. Laura Dimauro, et al., No. 08-23235, S.D. Fla., Miami Div.). 
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<title>Correction</title>
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<![CDATA[The Nov. 11 issue's summary of the ruling in In re: The Flintkote Company and Flintkote Mines Limited (No. 04-11300, D. Del. Bkcy.) on Page 9 incorrectly listed the attorneys representing Aviva. 
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