by Kent Holland | Jul 18, 2011 | Newsletter Article
April 2010 Certain cleanup costs may be covered as property damage under the exception to the pollution exclusion in a commercial general liability (CGL) policy when those costs constitute an appropriate and reasonable recovery that would have been obtained under...
by Kent Holland | Jul 18, 2011 | Newsletter Article
May 2010 Where a contractor used a sanitizing agent containing a form of pesticide when cleaning air ducts in a home, the homeowners filed suit for injuries allegedly caused from the sanitizing agent. The contractor’s commercial general liability (CGL) insurer...
by Kent Holland | Jul 18, 2011 | Newsletter Article
November 2010 The mold exclusion in a builders risk insurance policy was held to be applicable to mold damage that resulted from covered water damages that resulted when vandals turned on water taps of a new house just after substantial construction had been...
by Kent Holland | Jul 18, 2011 | Newsletter Article
December 2010 Dust and exhaust fumes emanating from a cement company’s construction operations at a nearby airport caused harm to a group of nearby homeowners. The injuries complained of included contaminated drinking water, breathing disorders, and...
by Kent Holland | Jul 18, 2011 | Newsletter Article
A court held that there was no “occurrence” as defined by the commercial general liability (CGL) policy when repairs had to be made to chimneys in new houses due to leaking flue gasses and carbon monoxide. by J. Kent Holland Jr. ConstructionRisk.com LLC...
by Kent Holland | Jul 13, 2011 | Newsletter Article
An architect licensed in the state of Maryland but not in Washington, D.C. entered into, and won, a competition for the architectural design of a new embassy and chancery building in Washington, D.C. for the United Arab Emirates (“UAE”). Because she was not licensed...
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