SAN FRANCISCO Insurers may be on the hook for additional millions to clean up the Stringfellow Acid Pits, one of California’s worst hazardous waste sites.
After 19 years of litigation at various levels, a few state Supreme Court justices sounded ready Wednesday to rule that insurers will have to pay all sums due on each policy issued over a 12-year period, subject only to individual policy limits. A trial judge had ruled that insurers should pay only their pro rata share for a single policy period of two to three years.
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