Legal Opinion
Maryland Casualty Company, W.R. Grace & Co. v. Continental Casualty Co.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided June 13, 2003No. Docket 01-7482PublishedCited by 102 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
B.D. PARKER, Jr., Circuit Judge.
This appeal concerns a series of rulings made by the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (John S. Martin, Jr., Judge) over the course of ten years. At issue is defendant-appellee Continental Casualty Co.’s duty to defend defendant-appellant W.R. Grace & Co. for environmental claims arising from gradual pollution under three separate insurance policies that were in effect, for relevant purposes, from 1973 until 1984. 1 For the reasons that follow, we conclude that the District Court’s rulings concerning the first two policies were…
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