Legal Opinion
Bradford Oil Co. v. Stonington Insurance Co. v. State of Vermont Agency of Natural Resources
Supreme Court of Vermont
Decided September 9, 2011No. 2010-361PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtDooley, J.
¶ 1. This case considers who should bear responsibility for the cost of cleaning up petroleum contamination caused by releases from a gas station’s underground storage tanks. The controversy in this appeal is between the State of Vermont, which runs the Vermont Petroleum Cleanup Fund (VPCF) and Stonington Insurance Co. (Stonington), which insured Bradford Oil, the owner of the underground storage tanks, for approximately a three-and-a-half-year period. The State appeals from the trial court’s judgment limiting Stonington’s liability to a 4/27 share of past and future cleanup costs and…
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