Fireman's Fund Insurance Companies v. Ex-Cell-O Corp.

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that “Application of the pollution exclusion depends exclusively upon the process by which pollutants entered the environment”
• regarding this pollution exclusion clause, the decisive inquiry is not whether the policyholders anticipated property damage, or whether they regularly disposed of hazardous waste, but whether the pollutants entered the environment unexpectedly and unintentionally
• the duty to defend is not restricted to the traditional lawsuit for money damages, but extends to the actual or threatened use of the legal process to coerce payment

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).