Legal Opinion
Peters Township School District v. The Hartford Accident and Indemnity Company
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided December 15, 1987No. 86-3771PublishedCited by 95 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
MANSMANN, Circuit Judge.
In this diversity case we are called upon to determine the scope of an exclusionary “earth movement” clause in an “all risk” insurance policy under Pennsylvania law. We conclude that the district court was correct in holding that the exclusion at issue would bar coverage for damage to the school buildings brought about by spontaneous, natural events but not for earth movement brought about by man-made causes such as mine subsidence, the acknowledged cause of the damage to the Middle School.
We further find, however, that the district court erred as a…
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