Is My Drywall Chinese? - HB Litigation Conferences

State Limiting Exclusion
to “Industrial” or
“Environmental”
Pollution
Iowa West Bend Mut. Ins.
Co. v. Iowa Iron
Works, Inc., 503
N.W.2d 596 (Iowa
1993)
Kansas Associated Wholesale
Grocers, Inc. v.
Americold Corp., 934
P.2d 65 (Kan. 1997)
Kentucky Motorists Mut. Ins.
Co. v. RSJ, Inc., 926
S.W.2d 679 (Ky. Ct.
App. 1996)
Louisiana Doerr v. Mobil Oil
Corp., 774So. 2d 119
(La. 2000)
Maine
Applying the
Exclusion Literally
Maryland Bernhardt v. Hartford
Fire Ins. Co., 648
A.2d 1047 (Md. Ct.
Spec. App. 1994)
(appeal settled due to
settlement by the
insurance company)
Massachusetts Western Alliance Ins.
Co. v. Gill, 686
N.E.2d 997 (Mass.
1997)
Michigan
Atlantic Mut. Ins. Co.
v. McFadden, 595
N.E.2d 762 (Mass.
1992)
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Product or Material
Damage from sand
disposed of off site
Smoke from hostile
fire
Carbon monoxide
fumes leaking from
defective boiler
Release of
hydrocarbons from
wastewater facility
Bodily injury from
carbon monoxide
exposure due to
blocked chimney
Carbon monoxide
exposure due to
defective tandoori
oven
Lead poisoning