Shade Foods, Inc. v. Innovative Products Sales & Marketing, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the incorporation of almonds containing wood splinters into cereal products caused property damage
• holding that the failure to investigate led to a breach of the duty to defend
• holding that insurer’s rapid closing of the file after 27 little investigation and failure to develop a plausible theory of the cause of a loss 28 supported the jury’s finding of bad faith liability
• explaining that presence of wood splinters mixed in with diced roasted almonds caused loss of use of cereal products containing said almonds
• holding presence of wood splinters in almonds caused \property damage\ within meaning of commercial general liability policy when contaminated almonds were incorporated into nut clusters and cereal products
• noting that an insurer has a duty to defend any lawsuit that potentially falls within the coverage of the policy

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).