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No coverage for landfill clean-up – not sudden and accidental

19 July 2016

A US Supreme Court reversed a lower court’s decision awarding $9.1 million to an insured company for the company’s defence costs of litigation over a clean-up of a landfill in Massachusetts.

Skydiving accident excluded

14 July 2016

A US federal judge has held that the insurer of a New Jersey airport owed no coverage in an underlying lawsuit stemming from injuries suffered during a skydiving accident because of the policy exclusion for injuries arising out of any parachuting activities. The parachute jumping exclusions stipulated that coverage did not include bodily injury or property damage resulting from any parachuting activity.

No coverage for false vehicle repair history

12 July 2016

A US Supreme Court found that the insurer did not have to defend a motor dealership from a suit brought by an individual who alleged that the dealership had misrepresented that the car he bought had not previously been damaged.

Paintball injury excluded by homeowners policy

14 June 2016

A court in Delaware USA held that coverage for an incident where one child used a paintball gun to shoot a paintball at another child, injuring his eye, was excluded from cover under the parents’ homeowners policy.

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