{"id":520082,"date":"2015-02-23T06:09:49","date_gmt":"2015-02-23T13:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myconstructionexpert.com\/blog\/?p=520082"},"modified":"2015-02-11T16:10:28","modified_gmt":"2015-02-11T23:10:28","slug":"oregon-appellate-case-limits-duty-defend-construction-contracts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myconstructionexpert.com\/blog\/oregon-appellate-case-limits-duty-defend-construction-contracts\/","title":{"rendered":"Oregon Appellate Case Limits Duty to Defend in Construction Contracts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel J. Nichols | Gordon &amp; Rees LLP | February 2, 2015<\/p>\n<p>In Sunset Presbyterian Church v. Anderson Constr. Co., 268 Or. App. 309 (Dec. 31, 2014), the Oregon Court of Appeals curtailed the damages available from a breach of a duty to defend obligation in an Oregon construction contract. The court affirmed a trial court\u2019s denial of all defense costs sought because there was no attempt to distinguish between costs covered by the duty and those not covered. Prior to the decision, Oregon law appeared to require a party to defend against all claims (both covered and uncovered), similar to an insurance agreement.<\/p>\n<p>Oregon\u2019s Anti-Indemnity Statute for construction contracts (ORS 30.140) voids \u201cany provision in a construction agreement that requires a person \u2026 to indemnify another against liability for \u2026 damage to property caused in whole or in part by the negligence of the indemnitee.\u201d In other words, a general contractor cannot force a subcontractor to indemnify the general for the general\u2019s own negligence (or vice versa).<\/p>\n<p>The court rejected the argument that the limitation on \u201cindemnity\u201d obligation in construction agreements does not apply, on its face, to \u201cdefense\u201d obligations, holding that ORS 30.140 limits defense obligations in the same manner as indemnity obligations. The court also ruled that a duty to defend does not follow the standard \u201cdefend-one-defend-all rule,\u201d whereby a duty to defend against any claim in a complaint requires defense of all claims in the complaint. This rule, developed in insurance law, had previously been applied to duties to defend among non-insurance parties (including parties to construction agreements). However, the court held that the rule was inappropriate in construction agreements with a duty to defend. Rather, a duty to defend in a construction agreement cannot require a party to pay for defending against claims caused by the other\u2019s own negligence.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, the petition for defense costs was rejected in its entirety because the petitioner did not distinguish between the costs of defending claims caused by the indemnitor\u2019s own negligence and other claims.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lexology.com\/library\/detail.aspx?g=7642ba1e-4d80-413e-8f7f-f025ae1d21b9\">Oregon appellate case limits duty to defend in construction contracts &#8211; Lexology<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel J. Nichols | Gordon &amp; Rees LLP | February 2, 2015 In Sunset Presbyterian Church v. Anderson Constr. Co., 268 Or. App. 309 (Dec. 31, 2014), the Oregon Court of Appeals curtailed the damages available from a breach of a duty to defend obligation in an Oregon construction contract. The court affirmed a trial&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.myconstructionexpert.com\/blog\/oregon-appellate-case-limits-duty-defend-construction-contracts\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Oregon Appellate Case Limits Duty to Defend in Construction Contracts<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[72,57,320],"class_list":["post-520082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-construction-contracts","tag-construction-contracts-2","tag-duty-to-defend-2","tag-oregon","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Oregon Appellate Case Limits Duty to Defend in Construction Contracts - Advise &amp; Consult, Inc.<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.myconstructionexpert.com\/blog\/oregon-appellate-case-limits-duty-defend-construction-contracts\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Oregon Appellate Case Limits Duty to Defend in Construction Contracts - Advise &amp; Consult, Inc.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Daniel J. 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