by Kent Holland | Feb 19, 2025 | Current Issue:, Newsletter Article
Where a swimming pool construction contractor built a multi-million dollar “floating floor pool, it designed a system based on information found on YouTube. When completed, the pool floor wouldn’t raise evenly. It jammed inside the pool shell and each time it was...
by Kent Holland | Apr 13, 2020 | Newsletter Article
While a declaratory judgment action was pending to decide whether a CGL insurance carrier owed a duty to defend and indemnify a contractor against claims by its client, a marina, for damages arising out of defective work, the contractor and marina entered into what is...
by Kent Holland | Aug 13, 2019 | Newsletter Article
A commercial general liability (CGL) policy insurance carrier sought declaratory judgment that it owed no duty to defend or indemnify a subcontractor that was insured under the policy for damages allegedly caused by the subcontractor’s concrete slab work for a...
by Kent Holland | Feb 13, 2019 | Newsletter Article
Property damage caused by a subcontractor’s faulty work does not meet the definition of an “occurrence” under the CGL insurance policy because faulty work is not fortuitous. This Ohio Supreme Court decision differs from the coverage determinations of the courts of...
by Kent Holland | Feb 20, 2018 | Newsletter Article
Where a subcontractor failed to conduct soil-compaction testing before construction, the house that was built on non-compacted soil sustained settlement damage. The homeowners sued both the general contractor (GC) and subcontractor for damages. The GC tendered the...
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