No Coverage Owed For Damages Caused By Construction Defects

Mealey's (March 29, 2022, 9:03 AM EDT) -- PORTLAND, Ore. — An Oregon federal magistrate judge on March 15 granted an insurer’s motion for summary judgment in a coverage dispute after determining that no coverage is owed for hidden property damage to a townhome development because the policy’s construction defects exclusion bars coverage if the efficient proximate cause of the damage was construction defects and the policy’s seepage or leakage exclusion bars coverage if the efficient proximate cause of the damage was wind-driven rain....