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4878 An insured has the burden of showing the discharge of pollutants that caused its liability fell within an exception to a liability policy's pollution exclusion; if damages for which an insured is liable relate to distinct, divisible injuries or items of property damage, the insured has the burden of attributing each to a covered cause; if multiple covered acts or events concurred in causing a single injury or indivisible property damage, such allocation is not required. [NOTE: The California Supreme Court expressly disapproved of Golden Eagle (case #2956), and Lockheed Martin (case #4134) to the extent they disagreed with this opinion.]CitationSTATE v ALLSTATE (Pollution Exclusion) 45 C4 1008 [See: Standun v Fireman's 62 CA4 882, T/AT 5/98; Shell v Winterthur 12 CA4 715, T/AT 3/93; MacKinnon v Truck 31 C4 635, T/AT 10/03; Golden Eagle v Associated 85 CA4 1300, T/AT 2/01; Lockheed Martin v Continental 134 CA4 187, T/AT 12/05]
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