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Construction general liability policies are expensive in today's market.  In response to this, insurance underwriters have attempted to make policies less expensive.  Insurance companies do this by adding exclusions to policies which limit the instances where a carrier may have to pay. How exclusions make insurance less expensive So for example, projects for new residential construction result in far more claims than residential remodel projects.  Therefore, if a contractor only performs residential remodels, adding a [...]

(November 5, 2021) - Stratton Horres, Karen Bashor and Taylor Buono of Wilson Elser LLP present lessons learned from recent tragedies caused by the failure to maintain and update infrastructure. Our nation is in crisis. We refer to an infrastructure crisis with bridges, tunnels, railroads, overpasses, sewers, water supply, electrical grids and some buildings, although safe and code compliant when originally constructed, are no longer either. These hard infrastructure facilities, structures and systems are essential [...]

On September 16, 2021, Governor Newsom signed a trio of housing bills aimed at streamlining the development of housing throughout the state. SB 8 (Skinner) is an extension of the Housing Crisis Act of 2019. SB 9 (Atkins) is a comprehensive reworking of density on existing residential parcels. SB 10 (Skinner) provides local jurisdictions the option to streamline approvals for certain multi-family projects. This is part one in a series of Legal Alerts analyzing the [...]