AMERICAN NATIONAL FIRE INS. v. B & L TRUCKING

No. 17010-8-II.

920 P.2d 192 (1996)

82 Wash.App. 646

AMERICAN NATIONAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, Plaintiff, v. B & L TRUCKING & CONSTRUCTION CO., INC., a corporation; Eagle Trucking, Inc., a corporation; Camille M. Fjetland, as successor in interest to William K. Fjetland, deceased, and Jane Doe Fjetland, individually and as a marital community; and Executive Bark, Inc. a corporation, Respondents, and Northern Insurance Company of New York, a corporation, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of Washington, Division 2.

As Amended June 21, 1996.

Publication Ordered July 12, 1996.

As Further Amended August 9, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bradley Alan Maxa, Linda C.J. Young, and Gordon, Thomas, Honeywell, Malanca, Peterson & Daheim, Tacoma, for Respondents.

Thomas Stephen James, Davis Wright Tremaine; Jerrett E. Sale, Bullivant Houser Bailey, Pendergrass & Hoffman; and William Jones Price and Jacquelyn A. Beatty, Karr Tuttle Campbell, Seattle, for Appellant.


OPINION

BRIDGEWATER, Judge.

Northern Insurance Company of New York appeals from a judgment requiring it to provide coverage under its policies with William Fjetland for the damage done by pollution from dumpings by Fjetland-owned entities into a landfill where a combination of slag and woodwaste had unexpectedly produced arsenic as a contaminate. We hold that the policy provisions of "occurrence" and the "pollution...

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