Lumbermens Mutual Casualty Co. v. Belleville Industries, Inc., Lumbermens Mutual Casualty Co. v. Belleville Industries, Inc.

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• explaining the futility of district court’s attempt to perform a “microanalysis of a continuous pattern of pollution.”
• polluting effects of fire and of flood from rainstorm were not sudden and accidental because they caused release into environment of same pollutant as was routinely released by manufacturer’s regular operations
• rejecting insured's contention that some pollution was due to accidents because a company that \purposefully and regularly [has] been carrying on operations involving continual pollution\ is not entitled to policy coverage
• sudden and accidental exception intended to cover occurrence that “would be a marked departure from normal operations,” not incidents that are “on the fringe of normal operations”
• surveying similar decisions in other circuits
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