Sixth Circuit: A Michigan Collapse Extension Overrides Exclusions for Cracking and Defective Design

Dick Bennett | Cozen O’Connor’s Property Insurance Law Observer | July 15, 2015 In Joy Tabernacle — The New Testament Church v. State Farm Fire & Cas. Co., 2015 WL 3824733, 2015 U.S. App. LEXIS 10707 (6th Cir., Jun. 22, 2015), a unanimous panel of the federal Court of Appeals recently held that a collapse extension… Continue reading Sixth Circuit: A Michigan Collapse Extension Overrides Exclusions for Cracking and Defective Design

Missouri Court Clarifies what Constitutes an Ensuing Loss

Richard C. Bennett | Cozen O’Connor | June 9, 2015 Last week in Performance Arts Cmty. Improvement Dist. v. ACE Amer. Ins. Co., 2015 WL 3491292, 2015 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 71592 (W.D. Mo., June 3, 2015), a federal court in Missouri shot down an insured’s arguments that a wall collapse caused by the excluded peril… Continue reading Missouri Court Clarifies what Constitutes an Ensuing Loss

Missouri Court Clarifies What Constitutes An Ensuing Loss

Dick Bennett | Cozen O’Connor’s Property Insurance Law Observer | June 9, 2015 Last week in Performance Arts Cmty. Improvement Dist. v. ACE Amer. Ins. Co., 2015 WL 3491292, 2015 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 71592 (W.D. Mo., June 3, 2015), a federal court in Missouri shot down an insured’s arguments that a wall collapse caused by the… Continue reading Missouri Court Clarifies What Constitutes An Ensuing Loss

California Supreme Court to Address Design Professionals and Duty of Care to Third-Party Purchasers

Gregory T. Hanson – June 5, 2014 On May 7, the California Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Beacon Residential Community Assn. v. Skidmore, Owings, & Merrill LLP, a case that will have a huge impact on design professional liability in California when third-party purchasers sue a designer alleging defective designs. The Beacon is a mixed-use… Continue reading California Supreme Court to Address Design Professionals and Duty of Care to Third-Party Purchasers

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