Chubb Insurers Must Pay NY Airport PFAS Costs, Second Cir. Says

Chubb Ltd. units fell short in their bid to overturn a lower court decision holding them liable for a New York town’s defense costs responding to PFAS contamination at a local airport designated as a Superfund site.

The Chubb insurers’ argument that they don’t have to pay for “combined claims” involving both covered and uncovered causes of pollution was unpersuasive, the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit said in a Monday summary order.

There was only a single claim in the case at hand: a 2020 notification from the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation that ...