Virginia Archives - United Policyholders

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UP’s (and co-amici’s) brief was written pro bono by Irene C. Warshauer, Esq., Joan L. Lewis, Esq., Todd D. Robichaud, Esq. of Anderson Kill & Olick, PC, and Robert L. Carter, Esq. of McKenna & Cuneo, LLP

City of Chesapeake Virginia v. State Self-Insurers

Year: 2004

Court: Virginia Supreme Court

Case Number: 51986

Issue:

Exclusions

State:

Virginia

History is squarely on the side of policyholders fighting against over reaching and unreasonable applications of so-called absolute total pollution exclusions. United Policyholders urged the Court to ensure that representations made by insurance companies as to the meaning of exclusions when adopted remain the standard…

PMB Nutritionals v. Lexington Ins. Co., et al.

Year: 2010

Court: Virginia Supreme Court

Case Number: 110669

Issue:

Pollution Exclusion and Coverages

State:

Virginia

Claim denied on the grounds that the occurrence was excluded as pollution. UP argued that the exclusion applies to industrial pollution of the environment, as obviated by representations made to regulators.