Kvaerner Metals Division of Kvaerner US, Inc. v. Commercial Union Insurance Company

How courts have described this case

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• holding that \the definition of 'accident' required to establish an 'occurrence' under the policies cannot be satisfied by claims based upon faulty workmanship\
• holding that \the definition of `accident' required to establish an `occurrence' under the policies cannot be satisfied by claims based upon faulty workmanship\
• holding that this Court “erred in looking beyond the allegations raised in [the underlying complaint] to determine whether [the insurer] had a duty to defend”
• holding that the primary goal when interpreting an insurance contract is to ascertain the intent of the parties as manifested by the language of the specific insurance policy
• holding that it was error for a court to look beyond the allegations in the complaint and consider other sources in determining an insurer’s duty to defend
• stating that the policy defined occurrence as “an accident, including continuous or repeated exposure to substantially the same or general harmful conditions.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).