AEROJET-GENERAL CORP. v. TRANSPORT INDEMNITY CO.

Docket No. S054501.

17 Cal.4th 38 (1997)

AEROJET-GENERAL CORPORATION et al., Cross-complainants and Appellants, v. TRANSPORT INDEMNITY COMPANY et al., Cross-defendants and Respondents.

Supreme Court of California.

December 29, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Jose N. Uranga, Nossaman, Guthner, Knox & Elliott, Scott P. DeVries, Kurt W. Melchior, Carl L. Blumenstein and Tad Pethybridge for Cross-complainants and Appellants.

Daniel E. Lungren, Attorney General, John A. Saurenman, Deputy Attorney General, Cotkin & Collins, Roger W. Simpson, Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, William R. Irwin, Donald W. Brown, Tom M. Freeman, Edith M. Hofmeister, Munger, Tolles & Olson, Cary B. Lerman, Charles D. Siegal, Howrey & Simon, Robert H. Shulman, John E. Heintz, Mindy C. Davis, Heller, Ehrman, White & McAuliffe, David B. Goodwin, Brian P. Brosnahan, Joshua Koltun, Anderson, Kill & Olick, Jordan S. Stanzler, Deborah M. Mongan and John A. MacDonald as Amici Curiae on behalf of Cross-complainants and Appellants.

Francis J. Stillman, Loraine A. Wallace, Michael Skaggs, Rivkin, Radler & Kremer, Donald McMillan, George Keller, Bishop, Barry, Howe, Haney & Ryder, Jeffrey N. Haney, William R. Brown, Boornazian, Jensen & Garthe, Bruce Winkleman, Carroll, Burdick & McDonough, James B. Clapp, Horvitz & Levy, Barry R. Levy, Mitchell C. Tilner, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Donald E. Sloan, Crosby, Heafey, Roach & May, Stephen G. Schrey, Louise M. McCabe, Gordon & Rees, Donald W. Rees, David C. Capell, Haasis, Pope & Correll, Kenneth E. Goates, Hancock, Rothert & Bunshoft, Richard L. Seabolt, Andrew K. Gordon, Brian A. Kelly, Laura G. Hill, Arthur J. Friedman, Hardin, Cook, Loper, Engel & Bergez, Ralph A. Lombardi, Hoge, Fenton, Jones & Appel, Robert Cullen, Jedeikin, Green, Meadows & Schneider, Nancy A. Aptekar, Lillick & Charles, Donald E. Dorfman, James Forbes, Long & Levit, Ira Goldberg, Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps, Cathy L. Croshaw, Mitchell L. Lathrop, Lynberg & Watkins, R. Jeff Carlisle, Wendy E. Schultz, Misciagna & Colombatto, P. Richard Colombatto, Morris, Polich & Purdy, Steven M. Crane, Mike Colliau, J. Burleigh Arnold, Newton, Kastner & Remmel, Stephen Newton, O'Melveny & Myers, Martin S. Checov, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, Jeffrey S. White, Pruess, Walker & Shanagher, Gary T. Walker, Ropers, Majeski, Kohn, Bentley, Wagner & Kane, Ropers, Majeski, Kohn & Bentley, Richard K. Wilson, Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold, Roger Sleight, Jeffrey Miller, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, Irene Sullivan, Thomas R. Harrell, Wilson, Elser, Moskowitz, Edelman & Dicker, Debra S. Sturmer and Stephen P. Randall for Cross-defendants and Respondents.

Sinnott, Dito, Moura & Puebla, Randolph P. Sinnott, Wiley, Rein & Fielding, Laura A. Foggan, Joseph L. Ruby and Andrew L. Wexton as Amici Curiae on behalf of Cross-defendants and Respondents.


OPINION

MOSK, J.

In this cause, we resolve two issues relating to standard commercial general liability insurance policies, which were formerly called comprehensive general liability insurance policies. The first question is whether site investigation expenses — broadly, expenses for determining the existence, nature, extent, effect, etc., of the discharge of hazardous substances at a location — may constitute defense...

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