Jonathan P. Wolfert and Owen Wolfe | Seyfarth Shaw LLP | December 28, 2016 Parties structuring transactions or business relationships often attempt to shift risk to their counter-party by having such party included as an additional insured on the counter-party’s insurance policies. In the real estate world, for example, property owners, including cooperatives and condominiums,… Continue reading Are You Really An Additional Insured?
Month: January 2017
Court Finds No Occurrence for Installation of Defective Flooring and Explains Coverage for Attorney Fee Awards
Christopher Kendrick and Valerie A. Moore | Haight Brown & Bonsteel | December 29, 2016 In Navigators Specialty Ins. Co. v. Moorefield Const. (No.G050759, filed 12/27/16), a California appeals court held that the knowing installation of flooring over a vapor-emitting slab was not an accident or occurrence, entitling the insurer to reimbursement of money paid… Continue reading Court Finds No Occurrence for Installation of Defective Flooring and Explains Coverage for Attorney Fee Awards
Construction Injuries Under the Privette Doctrine. An Electrifying, but Perhaps Not Particularly Shocking, Story . . .
Garret Murai | California Construction Law Blog | January 3, 2017 We’ve talked about the Privette doctrine before (see here, here, and here). The Privette doctrine, named after the court case Privette v. Superior Court (1993) 5 Cal.4th 689, provides in general that project owners and contractors are not responsible for worksite injuries suffered by employees of lower-tiered contractors they have… Continue reading Construction Injuries Under the Privette Doctrine. An Electrifying, but Perhaps Not Particularly Shocking, Story . . .
Construction Dispute Resolution Model involving Contractor Self-Performed Remediation
Jerome F. Rock | Jerome Rock Law This is a Construction Defect Resolution Facilitation Model customized for the unique conditions that often exist in a construction project; particularly when there is a dispute between the contractor and the owner concerning defects in the project. The unique feature of this approach is that the Neutral orchestrates… Continue reading Construction Dispute Resolution Model involving Contractor Self-Performed Remediation