Court Opinion

ID: 9637857
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 15:24:11.789839+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:10:01.190976
License: Public Domain

Justice NIGRO
dissenting.
Unlike my colleagues, I would reverse the order of the Superior Court and order Appellee Erie Insurance Company to cover the losses that Appellant Thomas F. Wagner, individually and trading as Blue Bell Gulf, sustained when an underground pipe at his gasoline station ruptured, releasing gasoline into the soil under his and neighboring properties. I simply cannot accept the Superior Court’s position that an insurance company providing general liability coverage for an insured’s operation of a gasoline station can deny coverage for *564damages from a gasoline leak based on a general pollution exclusion, when that exclusion is buried on page twenty-five of the policy and the policy’s definition of “pollutant” does not specifically reference gasoline.
Justice NEWMAN joins.