Boston Gas Company v. Century Indemnity

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that a jury verdict will not stand if “unsupported by any rational view of the evidence”
• stating that under the owned property exclusion, “only that remediation necessary to protect against off-site contamination is compensable; further costs, however useful to mitigate on-site contamination, are not”
• certifying questions to the SJC that were “determinative of the scope” of the plaintiffs claim
• certifying question where “the issue is determinative of the scope of Boston Gas’ claim”
• “[W]e afford IJs considerable flexibility in determining the 16 authenticity of . . . documents from the totality of the evidence.”
• certification appropriate where outcome “could easily matter in future cases not involving these parties”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).