Dismissal Denied In Complaint Alleging Contractor Didn’t Add Designers As Insureds

(October 6, 2023, 5:13 PM EDT) -- NEWARK, N.J. — A New Jersey federal judge denied in part a contractor’s motion to dismiss a design company’s third-party complaint against the contractor over its failure to add the company as an additional insured in a homeowner’s breach of contract suit alleging that the company failed to complete and abandoned a home renovation project, finding in part that additional discovery is needed to determine the actual relationship between the design company and contractor because the subcontractor agreement between them was never signed....