United States Ninth Circuit

EPA regulations provide for the exclusive remedy of prospective cancellation of an Underground Storage Tank insurance policy in the event of an insured's misrepresentation. Thus, the fact that defendant gas-station owner denied prior soil contamination on its insurance application did not warrant rescission of the policy.

Appellate Information

• Argued 12/02/2003
• Decided 01/29/2004
• Published 01/29/2004

Judges

• T.G. NELSON, Circuit Judge., Before BRUNETTI, T.G. NELSON, and GRABER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Alex M. Swiderski, Assistant Attorney General, Anchorage, AK, for State of Alaska, Amici Curiae., R. Justin Smith, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for United States of America, Amici Curiae., Laura A. Foggan, Wiley Rein & Fielding LLP, Washington, D.C., for Complex Insurance Claims Litigation Assn., et al., Amici Curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• George R. Lyle,Guess & Rudd P.C., Anchorage, AK, for the defendant-appellant., Dennis H. Walters, Karr Tuttle Campbell, Seattle, WA, and Matthew D. Regan, Holmes Weddle & Barcott, Anchorage, AK, for the plaintiff-appellee.