Plumbing Subcontractor Awarded Summary Judgment In Insurers’ Roof Collapse Suit

(January 13, 2021, 9:42 AM EST) -- KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A federal judge in Missouri on Dec. 23 denied a plumbing subcontractor’s motion to reconsider his ruling denying its motion for summary judgment based on the waiver of subrogation clauses in lease agreements between a landlord and two tenants of a warehouse whose property was damaged as a result of a roof collapse but found that the subcontractor was entitled to summary judgment on claims brought by insurers that provided policies to the tenants based on the acceptance doctrine because the building’s owner approved of the plumbing subcontractor’s installation of the roof’s drainage system....