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REICHHOLD CHEMICALS, INC. v. HARTFORD ACCIDENT & INDEMNITY CO.

(SC 16156)

252 Conn. 774 (2000)

REICHHOLD CHEMICALS, INC. v. HARTFORD ACCIDENT AND INDEMNITY COMPANY ET AL.

Supreme Court of Connecticut.

Officially released May 3, 2000.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Francis J. Brady, with whom were Barry J. Fleishman, pro hac vice, and, on the brief, Elizabeth J. Stewart, April Lieberman, Leon B. Kellner, pro hac vice, and Robert W. Pommer III, pro hac vice, for the appellant (plaintiff).

Stephen A. Fennell, pro hac vice, with whom were John L. Altieri, Jr., pro hac vice, John B. Farley and John T. Harris, and, on the brief, Charles G. Cole, pro hac vice, Mary Woodson Poag, pro hac vice, Ralph DeSanto, pro hac vice, Michael G. Clear and Sheila A. Huddleston, for the appellees (defendant Home Insurance Company et al.).

Robert Kehmna filed a brief for the Insurance Association of Connecticut as amicus curiae.

Kathleen F. Munroe, Laura A. Foggan, pro hac vice, Daniel E. Troy, pro hac vice, and Keith U. Kuder, pro hac vice, filed a brief for the Insurance Environmental Litigation Association as amicus curiae.

McDonald, C. J., and Borden, Norcott, Katz, Palmer, Sullivan and Callahan, JS.

Opinion

CALLAHAN, J.

The principal issue in this appeal is whether the trial court in the present insurance coverage case properly applied New York law under the analytical approach of the Restatement (Second) of Conflict of Laws, which this court adopted in Reichhold Chemicals, Inc. v. Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co., 243 Conn. 401, 703 A.2d 1132 (1997).

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