Tag: Personal Injury

A Cautionary Insurance Tale for Project Owners

Stan Martin – September 4, 2013 The contractor’s excavator digging the foundation for a new building undermines the abutting building, which collapses, and a worker is injured.  In the subsequent lawsuits, one by the abutter and one by the injured worker, the project owner tenders the defense to its GL carrier.  The carrier eventually gets… Continue reading A Cautionary Insurance Tale for Project Owners

Seventh Circuit Holds Contractor Bodily Injury Exclusion Inapplicable

Brian Margolies – June 11, 2013 In its recent decision in Atlantic Casualty Ins. Co. v. Paszko Masonry, Inc., 2013 U.S. App. LEXIS 11561 (7th Cir. June 7, 2013), the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit had occasion to consider whether a company that had bid on, but not yet been awarded… Continue reading Seventh Circuit Holds Contractor Bodily Injury Exclusion Inapplicable