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Article: Mold and pollution: When is a contaminant not a contaminant?
- Article from:
- FDCC Quarterly
- Article date:
- January 1, 2003
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CopyrightCopyright Federation of Defense & Corporate Counsel, Inc. Winter 2003. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Mold and Pollution: When Is a Contaminant Not a Contaminant?t
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INTRODUCTION
Whether mold is a pollutant presents a question of considerable and pressing interest both to insurers and insureds who must deal with general policy forms that lack a mold exclusion but otherwise exclude pollution. Similarly, it poses coverage issues when insurers or insureds must deal with carriers who have incorporated specific pollution coverage without reference to mold losses. The frequency and cost of claims involving species of molds such as stachybotrys chartarum have become so high that insurers with both types of contracts need some certainty on this issue. Unfortunately, common parlance points in ...
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