Outboard Marine Corp. v. Liberty Mutual Insurance

This appeal involves an insurance coverage dispute between the plaintiff, Outboard Marine Corporation (OMC), and four of its excess insurance carriers, The Home Insurance Company (Home), Employer’s Surplus Lines Insurance Company (ESLIC), Northbrook Insurance Company (Northbrook), and American Re-Insurance Company (American). Following a two-week bench trial on the issue of the insurers’ duty to indemnify OMC, the circuit court of Lake County held that OMC’s polychlorinated byphenyl (PCB) contamination of Waukegan Harbor constituted a "continuing occurrence” between 1953 and 1976 triggering…