An insurance provision barring coverage for pollution claims could apply even to emissions that were explicitly permitted by a regulator, Illinois’ top court ruled, handing a win to an
The Illinois Supreme Court’s Friday ruling means the insurer is likely off the hook for tens of millions in legal defense costs incurred by companies that operated a medical sterilization facility in Willowbrook, Ill., and faced mass tort claims over ethylene oxide emissions.
A federal appeals panel had asked the state’s top court to review whether a permit or regulation authorizing certain emissions had any bearing ...