Powerine Oil Co., Inc. v. Superior Court

Opinion

BAXTER, J.

Introduction

Powerine Oil Company (Powerine), a now defunct oil refinery, faces liability for certain govemmentally imposed cleanup and abatement orders requiring it to remediate soil and groundwater pollution resulting from its past refinery operations at various locations. In Certain Underwriters at Lloyd’s of London v. Superior Court (2001) 24 Cal.4th 945 [103 Cal.Rptr.2d 672, 16 P.3d 94] (Powerine I), an earlier writ proceeding in the instant case, we held that the insurer’s duty to indemnify Powerine, the insured, for “ ‘all sums that the insured becomes legally obligated…