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Civil Litigation,
Insurance,
Construction,
California Courts of Appeal

Jul. 10, 2018

Insuring ongoing operations

An appellate decision makes it clear that insurers intending to limit coverage to ongoing operations must use clear and unambiguous language in their endorsements to limit their coverage obligations.

Garret D. Murai

Partner
Nomos LLP

Garret is the editor of the California Construction Law Blog at www.calconstructionlawblog.com.

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Insuring ongoing operations
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CONSTRUCTION CORNER

Project owners and contractors would have loved harberdasher-turned-president Harry "The Buck Stop Here" Truman. That's because "passing the buck" is an age-old tradition in the rough and tumble world (no dandies here) of construction where every project is a "beta" model, whether it comes to contractually shifting responsibility for bearing costs associated with unknown site conditions, making up time due to accelerated sc...

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