Bentz v. Mutual Fire, Marine & Inland Insurance

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that there is nothing intrinsically unclear about the terms “sudden and accidental”
• overriding the pollution exclusion where the policy was not a comprehensive general policy but was purchased specifically to cover hazards such as pest control
• where the insured’s “sole business” was pesticide application and insurer was aware of the nature of the business, the court agreed that the parties intended the insurance policy to cover the insured’s “normal operations”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).