Bausch & Lomb Inc. v. Utica Mutual Insurance

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “[I]n the absence of third party property damage, [the insurer] was not obliged to pay [the insured’s] abatement expenses incurred at the State’s behest.”
• “A hallmark of the comprehensive general liability policy is that it insures against injury done to a third party’s property____”
• “A hallmark of the comprehensive general liability policy is that it insures against injury done to a third party’s property, in contradistinction to an ‘all-risks’ policy also covering losses sustained by the policy-holder.”
• “The State’s interest ... rests on its power to preserve and regulate. That power does not constitute a property interest within the contemplation of the insurance policy in dispute.”
• Maryland Court of Appeals held that although the state filed no suit or issued any order, the tacit threat of state intervention through Maryland environmental regulations satisfied the requirement that the contaminator was legally obligated to pay
• “It is a recognized rule of construction that a contract must be construed in its entirety and, if reasonably possible, effect must be given to each clause or phrase so that a court does not cast out or disregard a meaningful part of the writing.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).