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· 7/16/1993

Trustees of Tufts University v. Commercial Union Insurance

Citations

  • 616 N.E.2d 68
  • 415 Mass. 844
  • 1993 Mass. LEXIS 454

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding the manifestation approach to be inappropriate -- and explicitly not choosing a trigger -- in a soil contamination case
  • rejecting manifestation trigger theory in environmental contamination context but declining expressly to adopt another trigger theory
  • duty to defend not limited to specific hazards listed in policy schedule because policy did not “unambiguously” limit coverage to specified hazards

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Judges: Liacos, Wilkins, Lynch, O'Connor, Greaney

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