Legal Opinion
Frontier Insulation Contractors, Inc. v. Merchants Mutual Insurance
New York Court of Appeals
Decided December 22, 1997PublishedCited by 216 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Titone, J.
The narrow issue before us in this declaratory judgment action is whether the "product hazards” exclusions in the insurance policies at issue relieve defendant insurers of the duty defend their insured, an asbestos insulation contractor, in 21 underlying personal injury suits. We resolve this question in favor of the insured because defendant insurers have failed to establish that the personal injury claims fall entirely within the product-hazards exclusions.
Plaintiff Frontier Insulation Contractors, a Buffalo-based industrial and commercial insulation…
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