Bodisco v. Nixon

How courts have described this case

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• affirming the district court's grant of summary judgment to the third-party defendant insurers based on the inapplicability of the \sudden and accidental\ exception to the pollution exclusions in the insured's policies
• declining to obligate an insurer to extend coverage “based on a reading of the complaint that is linguistically conceivable but tortured and unreasonable”
• the release of hazardous waste upon land or into a watercourse through long term industrial practice is an intentional release into the environment which cannot be considered accidental
• allegations “that an industrial operation disposed of its manufacturing waste by certain improper methods for close to thirty years, cannot be understood to allege a ‘sudden’ release”
• for release to be sudden it must occur over a short period of time
• “We decline to obligate an insurer to extend coverage based on a reading of the complaint that is linguistically conceivable but tortured and unreasonable.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).