{"id":884148,"date":"2015-10-14T06:06:14","date_gmt":"2015-10-14T12:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myconstructionexpert.com\/blog\/?p=884148"},"modified":"2015-10-13T17:12:16","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T23:12:16","slug":"courts-may-alter-liability-for-defective-construction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myconstructionexpert.com\/blog\/courts-may-alter-liability-for-defective-construction\/","title":{"rendered":"Courts may alter Liability for Defective Construction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Advise &amp; Consult, Inc. | October 14, 2015<\/p>\n<p>Two recent court decisions appear to\u00a0expand property insurance coverage for defective construction work.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit broadened the definition of covered property damage in the case of Carithers v. Mid-Continent Casualty. The court held that demolition necessary to repair defective construction is property damage covered by insurance.<\/p>\n<p>In previous court decisions, such repair and replacement expense were deemed\u00a0uncovered property damage.<\/p>\n<p>In the case of Essex Insurance v. Kart Construction, the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida found that exclusions to\u00a0property insurance coverage during construction work were inapplicable.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/therealdeal.com\/miami\/blog\/2015\/10\/04\/courts-may-alter-liability-for-construction-defects\/\" target=\"_blank\">To finish reading this article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Advise &amp; Consult, Inc. | October 14, 2015 Two recent court decisions appear to\u00a0expand property insurance coverage for defective construction work. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit broadened the definition of covered property damage in the case of Carithers v. Mid-Continent Casualty. The court held that demolition necessary to repair defective construction&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.myconstructionexpert.com\/blog\/courts-may-alter-liability-for-defective-construction\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Courts may alter Liability for Defective Construction<\/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":[4],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-884148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-construction-defects","tag-construction-defects-2","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>Courts may alter Liability for Defective Construction - Advise &amp; 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