Legal Opinion
McGregor v. Allamerica Insurance
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided July 10, 2007PublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtIreland, J.
This case involves whether a spill of home heating oil falls within the scope of a pollution exclusion in a commercial general liability policy. The plaintiff, Thomas McGregor, doing business as McGregor Heating & Air Conditioning, seeks to invoke the duty of the defendant, Allamerica Insurance Company (Allamerica), to defend him in a suit stemming from *401work done for Peter and Susan Staecker. In that underlying suit, the Staeckers, and their insurers as subrogees,1 allege that an oil leak on the Staeckers’ property was caused by McGregor’s negligence. They seek to recover the costs of the…
2Cases cited13 opinions
- Western World Insurance Company v. Stack Oil, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1990
- Augat, Inc. v. Liberty Mutual InsuranceMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1991
- Hazen Paper Co. v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1990
- Hakim v. Massachusetts Insurers' Insolvency FundMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1997
- Herbert A. Sullivan, Inc. v. Utica Mutual InsuranceMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2003
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