Medmarc Casualty Insurance v. Avent America, Inc.

FLAUM, Circuit Judge.

Avent America, Incorporated (“Avent”) 1 appeals the district court’s declaratory judgment that Medmarc Casualty, Pennsylvania General and State Farm insurance companies (“the insurance companies”) do not have a duty to defend Avent in a series of lawsuits involving the presence of Bisphenol-A (“BPA”) in certain products Avent sold. The plaintiffs in the underlying lawsuits are parents who bought these Avent products containing BPA and then refused to use the products once they learned of the dangers of BPA. The case at hand hinges on whether the underlying lawsuits state…