THE MAYERSON FIRM PLLC

By Marc Mayerson | August 30, 2005 For the past two decades, policyholders and insurers have been fighting over whether the cost of cleaning up hazardous-waste sites is covered under general-liability policies by arguing over the nature of that liability. The argument has tended to center on the meaning of the word “damages” and the insuring agreement’s promise to afford indemnification for the sums payable “as damages.” Departing somewhat from the standard version of these a