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Marten Law: Virginia Supreme Court to Decide Insurance Coverage for Climate Change Suits--AES Corp. v. Steadfast Insurance Co.
Posted on 15 Jun 2011 by Steven G Jones

By Steven Jones, Partner, Marten Law PLLC "The Supreme Court of Virginia will soon decide whether a claim for damages alleged to have resulted from climate change is a covered 'occurrence' under standard general liability policies,"... Read More

Tags: Duty to Defend , commercial general liability , GHG , pollution exclusion , Climate Change , nuisance , occurrence , Kivalina v. ExxonMobil , Steven Jones , greenhouse gases

Columbia Law School Center for Climate Change Law: Virginia Court to Decide the First Climate Change-Related Insurance Coverage Case
Posted on 21 May 2011 by LexisNexis Environmental Law Community Staff

By Julia Ciardullo, Fellow, Center for Climate Change, Columbia Law School On April 19, 2011, the same day the United States Supreme Court heard oral arguments in American Electric Power Co. Inc., et al., v. Connecticut, et al. , the Supreme Court... Read More

Tags: Duty to Defend , insurance coverage , public nuisance , AES v. Steadfast , pollution exclusion , Climate Change , Julia Ciardullo , occurrence , Kivalina v. ExxonMobil , global warming