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· 3/25/1997

Northville Industries Corp. v. National Union Fire Insurance

Citations

  • 679 N.E.2d 1044
  • 89 N.Y.2d 621
  • 657 N.Y.S.2d 564
  • 44 ERC (BNA) 1471
  • 1997 N.Y. LEXIS 306

How courts have described this case

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

  • finding that “leakages” that “occurred continuously over a period of many years” were not “sudden and accidental”
  • explaining that a court may “look to formal submissions in the current or underlying litigation to confirm or clarify the na ture of the underlying claims”
  • “Shifting the burden to establish the exception conforms with an insured’s general duty to establish coverage where it would otherwise not exist[.]”
  • “Shifting the burden to establish the exception conforms with an insured’s general duty to establish coverage- where it would, otherwise not ex-iste.]”
  • adopting approach that burden is on insured to establish exception Sumeme Com. to exclusion applies
  • “Shifting the burden to establish the exception conforms with an insured’s general duty to establish coverage where it would otherwise not exist[.]”

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Judges: Levine

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