September 01, 2023
A salad dressing manufacturer can't recover more than $2 million it spent after a wastewater spill to avoid an imminent and even costlier covered loss, the First Circuit said Friday following the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court's ruling earlier this year.
June 08, 2022
The First Circuit said it needed guidance in a coverage dispute over a Zurich unit's refusal to reimburse a salad-dressing manufacturer for expenses incurred to avoid an imminent and even costlier covered loss, and asked the Massachusetts high court to weigh in.
April 05, 2022
An insurer's refusal to reimburse a salad-dressing business for steps it took to avoid an even costlier shutdown could create a perverse incentive for policyholders, a First Circuit judge mused as the appeals court weighed the case Tuesday.