Insurer Prevails On Applicability Of Pollution Exclusion – Release Not Sudden or Accidental

This environmental coverage action arises out of the historic contamination of a parcel with various solvents and toxic waste disposed in unlined pits at the property.  Specifically, Northrop acknowledges using the property, which later became known as Bethpage Community Park (BCP), for the disposal of sludge from an on-site industrial wastewater treatment plant and from waste oils that contained residual amounts of TCE, other solvents and PCB’s since 1948.

Later, in the 1960’s, the company donated the property to the Town of Oyster Bay and …

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