Maryland Casualty Company, W.R. Grace & Co. v. Continental Casualty Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that “[t]he dearth of New York cases applying the laws of more than one state to an insurance policy — or any contract — is a significant factor in our decision” to apply only New York law
• stating, “the interest [of a state in which a waste site is located] diminishes when the question is not whether someone will or can pay for the cleanup but rather who will pay”
• interpreting the meaning of \sudden and accidental\ under New York law
• “[T]he location of the insured risk carries little weight in a choice-of-law analysis where the risk is scattered throughout two or more states.”
• “The general rule ... is that contracts are interpreted in accordance with the law in effect at the time of their formation.”
• “A federal court sitting in diversity applies the choice-of-law rules of the forum state.” (citation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).