Insurer Is Entitled To Equitable Contribution In Environmental Coverage Dispute

(July 10, 2023, 11:01 AM EDT) --  XE "Environmental Contamination" PORTLAND, Ore. — An Oregon federal judge granted an insurer’s supplemental motion for summary judgment on the issue of allocation of defense and indemnity costs and equitable contribution after determining that an interim cost-sharing agreement between two insurers in an environmental contamination coverage dispute prevents the insurer from being reimbursed for excess costs that the insurer paid on behalf of the mutual insured....