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No coverage for landfill clean-up – not sudden and accidental

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By Patrick Bracher (ZA) on July 18, 2016

A US Supreme Court reversed a lower court’s decision awarding $9.1 million to an insured company for the company’s defence costs of litigation over a clean-up of a landfill in Massachusetts.

The clean-up was done under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act when an action was brought by the authorities forcing the company…

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