In April 2025, a Connecticut, US, decision held that rainwater that flooded a roof which a roof drain could not handle, thus flooding the roof terrace and entering the third floor of a building under the closed terrace door was not “surface water” for the purposes of an exclusion in the policy.
An all-risk commercial
A Greek appeal court was recently called upon to interpret the exclusion under the Contractors’ Erection All Risks Policy which read:
“the insurer shall not Indemnify the Insured for … The cost of replacement, repair or rectification of loss due to defective material and/or workmanship. This exclusion shall be limited to the insured items
A US construction worker was fatally shocked while repairing a bridge. He was working on a platform scissor-lift mounted on a truck owned by his employer construction company. He was working on a bridge owned by New Jersey Transit.
His widow claimed damages from the New Jersey Transit company. NJT then sought cover under the
A court in North Carolina USA found that the insurers of a gym did not have to cover two underlying lawsuits resulting from a former employee allegedly videotaping female patrons undressing in a tanning bed. The claim was excluded by the sexual and/or physical abuse exclusion.
The court held that the sexual and physical abuse
A New York appeals court refused to allow insurers to invoke a dishonest acts exclusion to avoid a bank’s claim for the indemnity of a $200 million fine paid to regulators. The clause read “This policy shall not apply to any claim made against the insured based upon or arising out of any deliberate, dishonest
An insurer was required by a Canadian court to provide an indemnity under a comprehensive homeowner’s property and liability insurance policy to the parents of a child who bullied another pupil.
The insurer argued that the injuries claimed by the plaintiff were a result of an intentional act of assault, threatening and bullying. The policy
Insurers cannot use the contractual liability exclusion in a construction policy to deny coverage for defective work unless the builder assumes special liabilities in the contract that they would not otherwise have had.
This was held in a long-awaited decision in Texas USA (Ewing Construction Co v American Insurance Co). The outcome should