A federal judge in Illinois has limited an insurance carrier's exposure in a $10 million environmental damage action that provides one of the few cases interpreting the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, according to the defense attorney.
U.S. District Court Judge Matthew Kennelly for the Northern District of Illinois, in Chicago, ruled that a claim by the Egan Marine Corporation and Service Welding and Shipbuilding LLC involved two vessels rather than one.
His decision came in granting a summary judgment motion for dismissal by the Great American Insurance Company of New York.
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