Pringle v. Water Quality Insurance Syndicate

ORDER GRANTING SUMMARY JUDGMENT TO WQIS AND EPG; DENYING PLAINTIFF’S MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT

[Motions filed on August 8, 2006, Dkt. No. 72, September 18, 2006, Dkt. No. 97.]

DEAN D. PREGERSON, District Judge.

I. BACKGROUND

A. The City Action

From approximately 1984 to 2003, San Pedro Boat Works (“SPBW”) operated boatyards at Berths 44 and 57 in the Port of Los Angeles. 1 SPBW used copper-nickel sandblast material in its boatyard operations that it knew to “produce ... slag containing hazardous wastes (i.e., marine paint particles, residue etc.).” (SPBW Reply 3.) Beginning in 1989, the City of…