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Disintegrating foundations caused by flowing water is gradual deterioration

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By Patrick Bracher (ZA) on July 9, 2018

A policy exclusion for damage caused by ‘gradual deterioration’ was held to exclude cover where a building had to be demolished by reason of foundations which disintegrated from flowing water. The building was built across a line of an old watercourse with seven natural springs in the vicinity and there was no proper drainage design.…

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