Faulty Workmanship Exclusion Does Not Bar Coverage, 8th Circuit Affirms

(April 22, 2020, 8:30 AM EDT) -- ST. LOUIS — The Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on April 20 affirmed a lower federal court’s denial of an insurer’s motion for judgment as a matter of law, finding that a builder’s risk insurance policy’s faulty workmanship exclusion does not bar coverage for damage to roof panels following a windstorm and that the windstorm’s destructive force existed despite the existence of any faulty workmanship by the insured (Joseph J. Henderson & Sons, Inc. v. Travelers Property Casualty Insurance Company of America, No. 18-3341, 8th Cir., 2020 U.S. App. LEXIS 12622)....

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