by Kent Holland | Apr 14, 2025 | Newsletter Article
Where Insured contractor settled a claim against it by its owner client, the insurance carrier declined to cover the settlement as “damages”. In a lawsuit against the carrier by the contractor, a court found the carrier had no duty to indemnify the contractor for the...
by Kent Holland | Jan 4, 2024 | Newsletter Article
Where Owner argued that it was covered as an Additional Insured under a Subcontractor’s CGL policy, the court held that the subcontract required only that the Prime Contractor be named as an additional insured, and because no one is an additional insured unless a...
by Kent Holland | Jul 13, 2023 | Newsletter Article
Where an insurance carrier denied coverage for damages caused by a heating and air-conditioning company whose removal of a system from a residential home resulted in 170 gallons of heating oil leaking into the basement. The carrier argued that the oil was a...
by Kent Holland | May 31, 2022 | Newsletter Article
General contractor and its CGL carrier were sued by a subcontractor’s employee for injuries sustained when hit by truck driven by another subcontractor while working on site. The CGL moved for summary judgment on the basis that an exclusion in the policy barred...
by Kent Holland | Nov 23, 2021 | Newsletter Article
The contractual liability exclusion in a professional liability policy is often used by carriers to deny coverage for liability of the Insured design professional (DP) that arises out of the indemnification article of a contract. For example, if the DP agrees to...
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