Insureds’ Property Damage Evidence Fails To Show Evidence Of Sudden Collapse

Mealey's (December 20, 2022, 1:47 PM EST) -- SEATTLE — A Washington trial court did not err in granting an insurer’s motion for summary judgment in an insurance dispute over a property damage claim related to certain structural damage to a condominium complex’s building due to certain construction defects because the condominium’s owners association failed to provide evidence of an “abrupt or sudden falling down of any part of a building such that it could not be occupied for its intended purpose” as required under the insurer’s collapse coverage provision, a Washington appellate panel affirmed....