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Insurance Litigation Florida Construction Defects

Segal McCambridge

Can an Insurer’s Defense of Non-Consent to the Insured’s Participation in the Florida Statutes Chapter 558 Process Be Waived?

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As construction claims continue to multiply in Florida’s prolific housing development scene, a question has continued to arise: Is a liability carrier obligated to defend an insured contractor where there has been no lawsuit...more

Butler Weihmuller Katz Craig LLP

Timing is Everything: Defending Subcontractors Against Breach of Construction Contract Claims

Transfer of risk and liability are common occurrences in the field of construction. National builders often employ a single licensed general contractor to oversee the totality of its construction projects throughout the state...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

Applying Florida’s “Eight Corners Rule,” Eleventh Circuit Finds that Insurer Has a Duty to Defend Claim That Insured’s Faulty...

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Addison Ins. Co. v. 4000 Island Blvd. Condo. Ass’n, 2017 U.S. App. LEXIS 26870 (11th Cir. Dec. 28, 2017) - The owner of a high-rise condominium building in Florida hired a contractor to replace the building’s concrete...more

Carlton Fields

Altman Contractors V. Crum & Forster: Florida Supreme Court Answers The 11th Circuit’s Certified Question In The Affirmative

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In Altman Contractors, Inc. v. Crum & Forster Specialty Ins. Co., 832 F.3d 1318 (11th Cir. 2016), the Eleventh Circuit certified the following question to the Florida Supreme Court: "Is the notice and repair process set forth...more

Pillsbury - Gravel2Gavel Construction & Real...

Florida, Sebo and the Concurrent Causation Doctrine

The Florida Supreme Court recently issued a widely reported decision, Sebo v. American Home Assurance Co., which applied the concurrent cause doctrine in ruling that an all-risk homeowner’s insurance policy provides coverage...more

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Competing Causes of Loss: Florida Supreme Court Issues Decision Applying The Concurrent Causation Doctrine

We have discussed on a number of occasions the issue of causation when there are multiple causes of loss, some covered and some not covered. Most jurisdictions apply what is known as the efficient proximate cause analysis...more

Carlton Fields

Florida Supreme Court Decides that Concurrent Causes Equal Coverage

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It’s said that “defeat is an orphan,” but insurable losses often have multiple, concurrent causes. In some cases, one or more of those causes might be outside the scope of coverage, either by omission or exclusion. In Sebo v....more

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