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Sherman & Howard L.L.C.

Proposed Construction Industry Insurance Regulations Could Require Substantial Insurance Disclosures to Certain Residential...

The Colorado General Assembly’s 2024 legislative session is well underway, and this year’s session includes a bill that could impose substantial insurance disclosure requirements on owners or developers selling residential...more

Pillsbury - Policyholder Pulse blog

Recent Illinois Supreme Court Decision on Construction Defect Claim Is a Perfect Holiday Gift for Policyholders

The Illinois Supreme Court handed down a big win for policyholders just in time for the holidays. In Acuity v. M/I Homes of Chicago, LLC, the court joined the mainstream of jurisdictions and reversed years-old precedent that...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Policy Clauses, Exclusions and Endorsements: Language Matters

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals just reminded policyholders that while coverage exclusions are to be read narrowly, they must also be read comprehensively. In Engineered Structures, Inc. v. Travelers Property Casualty...more

Rivkin Radler LLP

New York Insurance Coverage Law Update

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New York Court Reaffirms That Contractor’s Defective Work Is Not A Covered “Occurrence” Anthony and Sandra Tamer hired RD Rice Construction (“Rice”) as a general contractor to gut and rebuild their combined residential...more

Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs, LLC

Dear YouDig? Forgot to Buy Insurance

Dear YouDig?, We thought we had insurance coverage if a subcontractor screws up. Now we hear that the Ohio Supreme Court says we might not? What is going on? I would never be caught dead without comprehensive insurance. I...more

Carlton Fields

Fifth Circuit Finds Erosion in Texas—Because Endorsements Are Transformative

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In Amerisure Mut. Ins. Co. v. Arch Specialty Ins Co., No. 14-20239 (5th Cir. April 21, 2015), a case that applied Texas law, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit recently held that the word “expenses,” as used in a...more

K&L Gates LLP

New Jersey Developer Wins on “Occurrence” and “Property Damage”; Appellate Division finds Subcontractors’ Faulty Construction...

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The Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division, has issued a very important decision for real estate developers and general contractors whose insurance companies have reserved rights or denied coverage for damage caused...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

Indemnification Agreements and Insured Contracts: Why Your Business or Insurer Might Owe a Defense and Indemnity

The purpose of this article is to address potential issues and concerns that may arise between General Contractors (“GC”), Subcontractors (the “Sub”) and their insurers when claims by outside parties (also known as...more

Stinson LLP

Construction Alert: Insuring Contractual Indemnity Obligations—A Lesson In Careful Contract Drafting

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The Minnesota Supreme Court issued a decision last week in the case of Engineering & Construction Innovations, Inc., v. L. H. Bolduc Co., interpreting a subcontractor's agreement to indemnify a contractor, the subcontractor's...more

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