American Home Products Corporation, Plaintiff-Appellant-Cross-Appellee v. Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, Defendant-Appellee-Cross-Appellant

How courts have described this case

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• finding no duty to defend the insured when the claimant’s injuries occurred completely outside the policy period
• an “occurrence” of personal injury means “any point in time at which the finder of fact determines that the effects of exposure to a drug actually resulted in a diagnosable and compensable injury”
• “[Sjince a cause normally precedes its effect, it is plain that an injury could occur during the policy period although the exposure that caused it preceded that period.”
• “An effect never precedes its cause.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).