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Amicus Library

Virginia
Monticello Insurance Company v. Baecher
Year: 1995
Court: Virginia Supreme Court
Case Number: 960193
Issue:
  • Trigger of Coverage
State:
  • Virginia

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.

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