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Georgia Solar Project Builders to Appeal $135M Damage Verdict

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Contractor Infrastructure Energy and Alternatives faces $100M jury award liability in landowners' suit claiming sediment runoff from 100-MW project impacted 21-acre lake on their adjacent property.

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New Insurance Case: Georgia High Court Rules that Construction Defects Satisfy Commercial General Liability Policy’s ‘Occurrence’ Requirement

Construction Dive

By Scott Turner Summary: The Supreme Court of Georgia recently issued its decision in Taylor Morrison Services, Inc. 2013) and joined a rapidly snowballing national trend by holding that defective construction work can be covered under the standard commercial general liability (CGL) policy as an “occurrence.”

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GA Court of Appeals Enforces Contract Clause, Excluding Liability for Incidental Damages Where Specific Performance Is Ordered

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The Court of Appeals of Georgia agreed. The court recognized that Georgia law generally allows parties to recover incidental damages in addition to being awarded specific performance of a contract, citing Gwinnett County v. DonRob appealed. Old Peachtree Partners, LLC.

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Can a Property Owner File a Claim Against the Contractor’s Insurance?

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Contractor liability for property damage. General liability insurance helps limit the financial impact of those risks. Painting with a broad brush, general liability offers coverage against expenses caused by workplace accidents to anyone other than an employee or officer of the company (though policies may vary). None at all.

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Construction Business Owner Blogs

Construction Business Owner

The first stop on our Atlanta tour was Hyundai Construction Equipment, who relocated their American Headquarters to Norcross, Georgia last December. headquarters in Pendergrass, Georgia, where we learned about their rapidly expanding dealership presence both in the U.S. Public Exposure and Liability on Construction Sites.

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Deepwater Horizon: Three Years Later

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The five states that were impacted by the Deepwater Horizon disaster (including 665 miles of contaminated coastline), Gulf Coast business owners, the federal government and BP have spent the past three years dancing a slow legal tango that has assessed clean-up costs, fines and other liabilities.

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COVER STORY: Shovel Ready Sites Are Growing From The Ground Up

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GEORGIA IS “MARKET READY”. Georgia’s program, called the Georgia Ready for Accelerated Development Sites Program or GRAD, has helped 30 sites in 28 different communities become GRAD certified with 7 projects locating on GRAD sites to date. Ready for Development in Georgia (Photo: Georgia.org).

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