Alton v. Manufacturers & Merchants Mutual Insurance

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that anticoncurrent cause provision entirely barred coverage where excluded peril directly or indirectly caused loss, even though contributing cause of loss may have been covered peril
• holding that anticoncurrent cause provision barred coverage
• holding that anticoncurrent cause provision barred coverage
• “train of events” principle to determine efficient proximate cause of loss not applicable where insurer excludes coverage by anticoncurrent cause provision
• even if policy might have covered one cause of damage, coverage was prohibited where coverage for another cause was excluded regardless of other contributing causes

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).