Insurer Makes No Showing Why Default Should Be Overturned, Contractor Says

(April 6, 2023, 8:31 AM EDT) -- FLORENCE, S.C. — A South Carolina federal judge should deny a motion for relief from default judgment and to set aside entry of default filed by an insurer in a contractor’s coverage dispute stemming from water intrusion and other construction defect issues at a mixed-use development project because the insurer failed to provide a “satisfactory explanation for the default much less establish the ‘mistake, inadvertence, excusable neglect, or surprise’” as required, the contractor argues in an opposition brief....