Garret Murai | California Construction Law Blog You don’t often hear about workers being attacked by ne’er-do-wells on a construction project. But, as they say, stuff happens . . . Construction contracts often address health and safety issues, as well as site security to protect the improvement, materials, equipment and tools, as well as to… Continue reading The Privette Doctrine, the Hooker Exception, and an Attack at a Construction Site
Category: Personal Injury
No Coverage for Delinquent Payments: Mobile Home Park Operator Cannot Recover for “Expected or Intended” Injuries
Lauren Silk | PropertyCasualtyFocus On May 1, 2023, in West American Insurance Co. v. Del Ray Properties Inc., the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington held that general liability insurers owed no coverage obligations to a mobile home park operator in connection with delinquent payments of utility bills that jeopardized its residents’ water… Continue reading No Coverage for Delinquent Payments: Mobile Home Park Operator Cannot Recover for “Expected or Intended” Injuries
Liability for Injuries to Subcontractors’ Workers
Scott Halberstadt | TALG General Contractors and Owner’s Representatives May Be Liable Generally, a subcontractor is solely responsible for the injury to one of its workers on the job site. However, as a recent California Court of Appeal reminded us, that is not absolute. The case involved an apartment construction project in San Francisco’s Hunters… Continue reading Liability for Injuries to Subcontractors’ Workers
Someone Who Hires an Independent Contractor May Still Be Liable, But Not in This Case
Katherine Dempsey | White and Williams In Allstate Veh. & Prop. Ins. Co. v. Glitz Constr. Corp., 2023 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 1180, 2023 NY Slip Op 01171, the Supreme Court of New York, Appellate Division, Second Department (Appellate Court), considered whether a contractor could be found liable for its subcontractor’s alleged negligence in causing injury… Continue reading Someone Who Hires an Independent Contractor May Still Be Liable, But Not in This Case
Caution to GCs! An Exception to Privette Can Leave You Open to Liability
Dolores Montoya | Bremer Whyte Brown & O’Meara In a recent important decision, Brown v. Beach House Design & Development the Court of Appeal addressed an issue that frequently arises under the Privette doctrine—the extent to which a general contractor can be held liable for injuries to a subcontractor’s employee. The injuries in Brown arose when a window casing subcontractor’s… Continue reading Caution to GCs! An Exception to Privette Can Leave You Open to Liability