Legal Opinion
Iowa Comprehensive Petroleum Underground Storage Tank Fund Board v. Shell Oil Co.
Supreme Court of Iowa
Decided February 16, 2000No. 99-618PublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CADY, Justice.
In this appeal we must determine whether our legislature intended proximate causation to be an element of recovery in an action for corrective costs against an owner or operator of an underground storage tank under the Iowa Comprehensive Petroleum Underground Storage Tank Fund Act, Iowa Code chapter 455G (1997) (Tank Fund Act). We conclude proximate cause is an element of recovery and affirm the judgment of the district court.. I. Background Facts and Proceedings.
Shell Oil Company owned and operated a gasoline station on S.W. Ninth Street in Des Moines from 1945 to 1969. The…
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