Farmers Cooperative Appeals Rulings In Defective Silo Construction Coverage Case

(July 25, 2023, 1:49 PM EDT) -- LAREDO, Texas — A farmers cooperative has appealed to the Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals a Texas federal judge’s June ruling that the insurer of a contractor it hired to build two grain silos has no duty to indemnify the contractor in the cooperative’s underlying lawsuit alleging that the construction was defective because the cooperative did not incur any “property” damage to trigger coverage and the policy exclusions bar coverage even if the underlying damages were deemed “loss of use” property damage....