Packgen scored a $7.2 million judgment against Berry Plastics Corp., including $6.5 million for future profits — after a series of small fires were allegedly caused by defects in the polypropylene-aluminum foil Berry sold to Packgen for lining “intermediate bulk containers,” or IBCs, that a Packgen customer, CRI Catalyst Co., called CRI, developed to hold chemicals that ignite when exposed to oxygen — but Berry’s excess insurer, Illinois National Insurance Co., refused to cover the loss.
By Steven P. Garmisa