Kerr-McGee Corp. v. Georgia Casualty & Surety Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• purpose was “to bar coverage responsibility for government-mandated cleanup under the Superfimd for gradual environmental damages of any type”
• purpose was \to bar coverage responsibility for government-mandated cleanup under the Superfund for gradual environmental damages of any type\
• “Such language... causes a reasonable person to be unsure of what appears at first blush to be plain and unambiguous but, upon examination under the facts of this case, is ambiguous.”
• exposure to chemical fumes wholly inside factory not excluded from coverage because pollution exclusion, “which was designed to apply to the environmental contamination, is so broad that a reasonable insured would not know what would be excluded.”
• “Such language . . . causes a reasonable person to be unsure of what appears at first blush to be plain and unambiguous but, upon examination under the facts of this case, is ambiguous.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).