Construction Law

Arkansas Supreme Court Holds Defective Workmanship Not an "Accident" Constitutiing an Occurrence Under a Commercial General Liability Insurance Policy
The Arkansas Supreme Court answered a question certified to it by Judge J. Leon Holmes of the Eastern District of Arkansas, in Essex Insurance Company v. John Holder et al., No 07-803...

Owner's Claim Asserting Faulty Construction Insufficient To Trigger Subcontractor's Duty To Indemnify General
Boulder Plaza Residential, LLC v. Summit Flooring, LLC (Colo. App. 2008) The Colorado Court of Appeals holds that an owner's claim of alleged defective workmanship is not sufficient, under the particular subcontract at issue, to trigger the subcontractor's duty to...

Hope On Insurance for Home Buyers, Builders and AOAO's in Construction Defect Cases From New Ruling In Florida
Burlington Ins. Co. v. Oceanic Design & Constr., 383 F.3d 940 (9th Cir. 2004) has created havoc for home buyers and condominium associations in Hawaii since it came out in 2004...

Faulty Foreclosures
Here's a real disconnect in the faulty foreclosure story: Last week Bank of America announced that it was restarting foreclosures after conducting a thorough review of its foreclosure process in two weeks and found everything to be all right...

WSJ: Obama's Faulty Tax Argument
Op-ed in today's Wall Street Journal: Obama's Faulty Argument, by Andrew G. Biggs (American Enterprise Institute): As the presidential campaign heats up, a key issue is whether to extend the 2001 and 2003 income tax cuts, which expire in 2011...

Warranties When the Contractor Abandons the Job
About a month ago, a woman walked into my office, and she said that her contractor told her that he would not honor his warranty unless she gave him a good reference. It seems like, of late, that homeowners are extremely concerned about the warranties provided by their contractors...

Security One
accused of selling faulty alarms

GM
Faulty Storage Latch Causes Recall of Nearly 300,000 Chevrolet HHR Wagons

Zurn Pex Inc.
alleging faulty and defective plumbing led to property damage.

Faulty Homes
Fleetwood Enterprises Inc. pays HUD $75,000 civil penalty for defective construction.