Garfield Slope Housing Corp. v. Public Service Mutual Insurance

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• that manager immediately removed carpet in response to letter from tenant, in which tenant complained about “fumes” from carpet and threatened lawsuit, did not transform letter into “claim” within policy’s terms
• threat to bring claim over toxic carpet was not a “claim” because, although “implicit in such a demand is the suggestion that [the insured] may be liable for damages,” the demand was actually for an action, i.e. removal of the carpet

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).