Camalloy Wire, Inc. v. National Union Fire Insurance

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Herman Cahn, J.), entered May 2, 1995, which, inter alia, denied defendant’s motion to dismiss the complaint, unanimously modified, on the law, and the motion granted except as to that portion of the complaint seeking insurance proceeds for damages attributable to the August 1989 oil spill, and, except as so modified, affirmed, without costs.

In early 1989, plaintiff Camalloy Wire, Inc., hired an environmental contractor, Greylag Technical Services, Inc., to decommission one of plaintiffs manufacturing sites. The project, inter alia, entailed removal of a…