Griffith Foods International, Inc., and Sterigenics, U.S., LLC v. National Union Fire Insurance Company of Pittsburgh, P.A.

Year: 2025
Court: Illinois Supreme Court
Case Number: 131710

In its amicus brief, United Policyholders provides a detailed analysis of history and case law demonstrating that a business’s emissions pursuant to a governmentally issued permit do not and should not qualify as “traditional environmental pollution” and thus fall outside general liability policies’ standard pollution exclusion.

John Vishneski, Stanley Nardoni, Claire Whitehead Jake Ziering of Reed Smith

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Source: https://uphelp.org/amicus-briefs/griffith-foods-international-inc-and-sterigenics-u-s-llc-v-national-union-fire-insurance-company-of-pittsburgh-p-a/
Date: July 10, 2026