Travelers Insurance v. Eljer Manufacturing, Inc.

We are asked in this consolidated appeal to determine when indemnity coverage for “property damage” under excess comprehensive general liability insurance policies, issued between 1979 and 1990 by various insurance companies (the insurers) to Eljer Manufacturing, Inc., Eljer Industries, Inc., United States Brass Corporation and Household International, Inc. (the policyholders), is triggered. The insurers filed four declaratory judgment actions in the circuit court of Cook County, seeking a declaration with respect to the insurers’ obligations to indemnify the policyholders in thousands of…