Insurer Owed Duty To Defend Insured Against Environmental Claims

Mealey's (September 17, 2018, 1:13 PM EDT) -- BOSTON — A Massachusetts federal judge on Sept. 13 adopted a magistrate judge’s recommendation to grant a motion for summary judgment filed by the insured’s assignee in an environmental contamination coverage dispute after determining that the magistrate judge’s analysis regarding the policy’s sudden and accidental exception to the pollution exclusion was correct (Plaistow Project LLC v. Ace Property & Casualty Insurance Co., No. 16-11385, D. Mass., 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 155965)....