Jennifer Loeb and Nigel Kent recently received reasons for judgment in Corbould v. BCAA Insurance Corporation, 2010 BCSC 1536, a claim for insurance coverage related to a furnace fuel spill that damaged the plaintiff’s recreational home. In dismissing the lawsuit with costs, the Court adopted wholesale the defendant’s arguments concerning policy interpretation, the doctrine of reasonable expectations and the pollution exclusion. The link to the case is http://www.courts.gov.bc.ca/jdb-txt/SC/10/15/2010BCSC1536.htm.
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