A federal appeals court has ruled that the Performing Operations Exclusion, the Incorrectly Performed Work Exclusion, and the Impaired Property Exclusion each separately barred commercial general liability coverage for an insured bridge demolition contractor’s bungled work during its ongoing operations and resulting loss of use of a river to navigation.
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- The citation for the case
- The details of the case
- Author’s commentary
- A link to the complete PDF copy of the original opinion
Here is a portion of the author's commentary:
"The opinion ignores the 'that particular part' limitation found in exclusions j(5) and j(6). Those exclusions only exclude coverage to the 'particular part' that involves the work. That would be the part of the river directly below the bridge. However, the use of the entire river was lost. Apparently, the court considered the river a single, indivisible whole without 'parts.' However, it is common usage to say, 'The contractor only worked on the part of the river directly under the bridge.'"
