MONTGOMERY WARD AND CO. v. HOME INS. CO.

No. 1-99-0601.

753 N.E.2d 999 (2001)

324 Ill. App.3d 441

257 Ill.Dec. 373

MONTGOMERY WARD AND COMPANY, INCORPORATED, and Standard T Chemical Company, Inc., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. The HOME INSURANCE COMPANY, Imperial Casualty and Indemnity Company and Century Indemnity Company, as Successor to CCI Insurance Company, as Successor to Indemnity Insurance Company of North America, Defendants-Appellees.

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, Fifth Division.

Rehearing Denied August 22, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hedlund, Hanley, Koenigsknecht & Trafelet, Chicago (Peter C. John, Kay L. Pick, Michael Rachlis & Margo Wolf O'Donnell, of counsel), for Appellant.

Williams & Montgomery, Chicago (Anthony P. Katauskas & Alyssa Campbell, of counsel); Cohn & Baughman, Chicago (William M. Cohn, Patrick M. Shine & Lizbeth J. Lemke, of counsel), for Appellees.


Justice REID delivered the opinion of the court:

Plaintiff Montgomery Ward & Company, Inc. (Ward), appeals from the trial court's grant of summary judgment in favor of Imperial Casualty and Indemnity Company (Imperial) and Century Indemnity Company (Century). The central issue considered by the trial court was whether there was insurance coverage for Ward's liability for pollution at a Superfund site in Griffith, Indiana, known as the American Chemical Services...

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