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Revisiting Construction Defects As “Occurrences” Under Cgl Insurance Policies, Christopher French Dec 2015

Revisiting Construction Defects As “Occurrences” Under Cgl Insurance Policies, Christopher French

Christopher C. French


Imagine a situation in which a homeowner hires a contractor to redo a bathroom, for example, and the work is done incompetently such that the plumbing leaks and causes damage to other parts of the house.  If the homeowner sues the contractor to recover the costs of repairing the faulty workmanship and the damage caused by the faulty workmanship, has there been an “occurrence” that is covered by the contractor’s Commercial General Liability (“CGL”) insurance policy?  This article provides an answer to that question.

The issue of whether construction defects are occurrences under CGL insurance policies has been litigated frequently …

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Property Rules As Remedies, Emily Sherwin Feb 2015

Property Rules As Remedies, Emily Sherwin

Emily L Sherwin

No abstract provided.

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Epstein And Levmore: Objections From The Right?, Emily Sherwin, Maimon Schwarzschild Feb 2015

Epstein And Levmore: Objections From The Right?, Emily Sherwin, Maimon Schwarzschild

Emily L Sherwin

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Why In Re Omegas Group Was Right: An Essay On The Legal Status Of Equitable Rights, Emily Sherwin Feb 2015

Why In Re Omegas Group Was Right: An Essay On The Legal Status Of Equitable Rights, Emily Sherwin

Emily L Sherwin

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Constructive Trusts In Bankruptcy, Emily Sherwin Feb 2015

Constructive Trusts In Bankruptcy, Emily Sherwin

Emily L Sherwin

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Making Debtor Remedies More Effective, Melissa B. Jacoby Apr 2010

Making Debtor Remedies More Effective, Melissa B. Jacoby

Melissa B. Jacoby

Commissioned for a conference on credit markets at Harvard Business School in February 2010, this paper explores functional system design and the role of lawyers and intermediaries in providing debtor remedies in a complex legal system. The thesis of this paper, which proceeds in the “law and society” tradition, is that the location of a remedial right within the debtor-creditor system substantially affects the costs and benefits of the remedy for debtors, creditors, the system, and society. In other words, merely adding specific substantive provisions does not directly translate into actual protection. Relatedly, policymakers must recognize that lawyers and other …

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Citizens Confront Officials In Middletown, Melanie Shapiro Esq, Donna M. Hughes Dr. Aug 2009

Citizens Confront Officials In Middletown, Melanie Shapiro Esq, Donna M. Hughes Dr.

Donna M. Hughes

The parking lot was overflowing for the Middletown Town Council meeting on Monday evening. Dozens of citizens, including local business owners and parents, were there to express their concern about the presence of spa-brothels in the community and the loss of a children-centered business as a result.

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