The Complex Insurance Coverage Reporter – 2020 Year in Review | White and Williams LLP
Maryland’s highest court adopts pro rata allocation for asbestos-related bodily injury claims under liability policies. The court began by explaining that injury spanning many years often implicates multiple policies and, therefore, implicates a continuous or injury-in-fact trigger under Maryland law. Adopting the reasoning of Mayor & City Council of Baltimore v. Utica Mutual Ins. Co., 802 A.2d 1070 (Md. Ct. Spec. App. 2002) , app. dismissed, 821 A.2d 369 (Md. 2003), it rejected joint and se...
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