United States Liability Insurance v. Bourbeau

How courts have described this case

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• holding that an objectively reasonable person would consider lead paint chips to be a “solid contaminant,” a “toxic chemical,” and “waste”
• holding lead paint chips are a pollutant within meaning of absolute pollution exclusion clause
• finding lead paint chips contaminating soil around town building after contractor had stripped the paint from the building constituted pollution under pollution policy exceptions
• under Massachusetts law, lead paint chips deposited on land in the course of strip- ping and painting building constitute a \pollutant\
• pollution exclusion disclaiming coverage for “all liability and expense arising out of or related to any form of pollution” acted to exclude all claims resulting from pollution regardless of fault, responsibility, or causation
• exclusion applies to land contaminated by lead paint scraping

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).