Legal Opinion
Cincinnati Insurance Co. v. Flanders Electric Motor Service, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided December 4, 1997No. 96-2778PublishedCited by 85 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KANNE, Circuit Judge.
Flanders Motor Service, Inc. sells and repairs motors and other equipment at its facility in Evansville, Indiana. During a seventeen year period from 1971 to 1988, Flanders sent several electrical transformers in need of repair to the Missouri Electric Works (“MEW”) in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. On at least two occasions those transformers may have contained fluids contaminated with PCBs. Sometime in the mid 1980’s an investigation revealed substantial PCB contamination of the soil at the MEW site. The Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) concluded that leaks from oil…
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