Legal Opinion
Northern States Power Co. v. Fidelity & Casualty Co. of New York
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Decided September 30, 1994No. C3-92-2363PublishedCited by 82 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
KEITH, Chief Justice.
In this appeal, we must decide how to allocate damages between multiple insurers on the risk for pollution clean-up costs. These costs were incurred by the insured, Northern States Power (NSP) when it complied with a Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) order to clean up property contaminated by operations as a coal-tar ga-sification site in Faribault, Minnesota. NSP commenced this action for declaratory judgment in 1989.
The property in question involves two adjacent sites along the Straight River in Fari-bault. In 1873, the Faribault Gas Light Company…
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