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VALE CHEMICAL v. HARTFORD ACC., ETC.

512 Pa. 290 (1986)

516 A.2d 684

VALE CHEMICAL COMPANY, Appellee, v. HARTFORD ACCIDENT AND INDEMNITY COMPANY, Appellant at No. 138 and Transamerica Insurance Company, and Manufacturers' Casualty Insurance Company, Appellants at No. 139.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided October 17, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Matthew R. Sorrentino, Bethlehem, James J. McCabe, Wayne A. Schaible, Philadelphia, for appellant.

Martin Greitzer, Philadelphia, for amicus curiae Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers.

Bruce Weida, Allentown, Saul Goodman, Washington, D.C., for Vale Chemical Co.

Before NIX, C.J., and LARSEN, FLAHERTY, McDERMOTT, HUTCHINSON, ZAPPALA and PAPADAKOS, JJ.

OPINION OF THE COURT

HUTCHINSON, Justice.

Transamerica Insurance Company ("Transamerica") and Hartford Accident and Indemnity Company ("Hartford") appeal by allowance a Superior Court order which affirmed the Court of Common Pleas of Lehigh County in this declaratory judgment action. Common Pleas held that both appellants had issued liability policies whose coverage required them to provide appellee both defense and indemnification

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