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Feb 20, 2015

CGL Policy Coverage for Rip and Tear Costs

General contractors are all too familiar with the limitations in a CGL policy relating to defective work. Those limitations exclude coverage for costs associated with damage caused by “your work.” There is a limited exception to the “your work” exclusion in some CGL policies that affords coverage for damage to other work caused by defective work performed by subcontractors (the “Subcontractor Exception”).  Regardless, there is no coverage for the costs of correcting the defective work itself – only for damage to other work caused by the defective work. Water intrusion situations provide good examples of how this coverage works. A subcontractor’s… Read more