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BRADFORD OIL CO., INC. v. STONINGTON INS.

No. 10-361.

54 A.3d 983 (2011)

2011 VT 108

BRADFORD OIL COMPANY, INC. v. STONINGTON INSURANCE COMPANY and State of Vermont Agency of Natural Resources.

Supreme Court of Vermont.

September 9, 2011.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William H. Sorrell , Attorney General, and Nicholas F. Persampieri and Scot L. Kline , Assistant Attorneys General, Montpelier, for Defendant-Appellant.

Bret P. Powell of Powell Orr & Bredice PLC, Williston, for Defendant-Appellee Stonington Insurance Company.

Present: REIBER, C.J., DOOLEY, JOHNSON, SKOGLUND and BURGESS, JJ.

DOOLEY, J.

¶ 1. This case considers who should bear responsibility for the cost of cleaning up petroleum contamination caused by releases from a gas station's underground storage tanks. The controversy in this appeal is between the State of Vermont, which runs the Vermont Petroleum Cleanup Fund (VPCF) and Stonington Insurance Co. (Stonington), which insured Bradford Oil, the owner of the underground storage tanks, for approximately a three-and-a-half-year period...

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