CPC International, Inc. v. Northbrook Excess & Surplus Insurance

OPINION

WEISBERGER, Chief Justice.

This case comes to us as a certified question from the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit pursuant to Rule 6 of the Supreme Court Rules of Appellate Procedure. 1 The certified question reads as follows:

‘What trigger-of-coverage standard would the Rhode Island Supreme Court use for determining at what point an ‘occurrence’ causing ‘property damage’ took place, within the meaning of the insurance policy provisions provided in the separate opinion in this case, where an insured alleges that a spill of hazardous contaminants in 1974 migrated…