Jones & Guerrero Co. v. Pulgar

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that asbestos fibers \released” into the air inside a building were not \released” \into the atmosphere\
• “It is evident that the standard pollution exclusion was developed over twenty years ago in response to insurers’ concerns over environmentally related losses and liabilities.” (emphasis in original)
• “It . . . is far from certain whether asbestos constitutes an ‘irritant,’ ‘contaminant,’ or ‘pollutant’ . . . .”
• specifically noting that a California court had ruled that “‘the release of asbestos fibers in the workplace or home cannot reasonably be construed to be a release into the atmosphere’”
• “‘The discharge applies to any discharge * * * the manner in which a pollutant, irritant, or contaminant is released, alone, has no bearing on the application of the standard pollution exclusion.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).