Faulty Exclusion Precludes Coverage For Fire Damages, Insurer Says To 5th Circuit

(September 9, 2015, 11:45 AM EDT) -- NEW ORLEANS — An insurance policy does not cover an insured’s claim for reconfiguring duct work in buildings that were not damaged by a fire and an exclusion for faulty, inadequate or defective design, specifications, workmanship, repair, construction, materials or maintenance applies, an insurer argues in a June 18 reply brief to the Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals (Houston Specialty Insurance Co. v. Meadows West Condo Association and The Meadow Apartment Owners Association Inc., No. 15-30140, 5th Cir.)....