Liberty Mutual Insurance Company v. Treesdale, Inc. Pittsburgh Metals Purifying Company

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that “a single occurrence can clearly result in injuries to multiple persons”
• affirming the finding that multiple incidents of asbestos exposure over a ten- year period were a single occurrence
• applying the non-cumulation clause to limit coverage to one policy period where thousands of asbestos exposure claims occurred over several policy periods
• reading an anti-stacking provision and an allegedly contradictory provision as consistent 19 with each other
• “Absent sufficient justification, . . . ‘an insured may not complain that his or her reasonable expectations were frustrated by policy limitations that are clear and unambiguous.’” (emphasis added
• NCC effectively reduced the liability limits of an insurance policy commensurate with prior payments made by the insurer under a “policy or policies of which this policy is a replacement”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).