Hoppy's Oil Service, Inc. v. Insurance Co. of North America

How courts have described this case

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• vitiating duty to defend where property acquired after expiration of coverage
• “No duty to defend or to participate in a defense can arise before the insurer has notice of the suit against the insured, or at least of the underlying claim and the likelihood of suit”
• loss of ability to determine whether pollution exclusion barred coverage
• “Under ‘occurrence’ coverage, as commonly construed and applied in Massachusetts . . . and other states as well, an entity making a tort claim against the insured must sustain harm within the period of the policy in order to assert a claim to which the insurance applies”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).