Patrons Oxford Mutual Insurance v. Marois

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that state DEP's administrative proceeding to compel clean-up of pollution was not \suit against the insured seeking damages\ within meaning of multiperil policy requiring insurer to defend insured in any suit seeking damages
• holding that state DEP’s administrative proceeding to compel clean-up of pollution was not “suit against the insured seeking damages” within meaning of multiperil policy requiring insurer to defend insured in any suit seeking damages
• stating expenditures that one is not legally obligated to make are not “damages,” even though they may be “substantial and may effectively alleviate or prevent property damage to others”
• finding no duty to defend an administrative proceeding brought by the Department of Environmental Protection to compel clean-up because the agency action was not a suit seeking damages
• finding no duty to defend administrative proceedings under Maine’s environmental cleanup statute
• an administrative order compelling cleanup by responsible parties was not a suit seeking damages under Maine law

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).