United States Second Circuit

Defendant has a duty to defend plaintiff in negligence and strict liability tort claims brought by former employees who allegedly contracted cancer by working in plaintiff's San Jose cleanroom. The trigger of liability coverage is the last date of each tort claimant's exposure to the cause of injury.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/19/2004
• Published 03/19/2004

Judges

• JACOBS, Circuit Judge., Before:  OAKES, JACOBS and POOLER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Joseph G. Blute,Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.C., Boston, Massachusetts, (Jaffe & Asher LLP, New York, New York, on the brief) for Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Thomas H. Sear (Mark R. Seiden, Howard F. Sidman, on the brief), Jones Day, New York, New York for Appellee, International Business Machines Corp., Thomas W. Queen (Thomas W. Brunner, Alysa B. Wakin, on the brief), Wiley Rein & Fielding, LLP, Washington, DC, (John H. Eickemeyer, Vedder, Price, Kaufman & Kammholz, P.C., New York, New York, on the brief) for Appellee, Zurich Insurance Co.