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Volume 4 - Number 5 | January 30, 2006

EDITOR'S NOTES | Issue 4-5: CGL policy insurers don’t typically look kindly on contractors who perform faulty work, then try to get their policies to cover the ensuing claims. One contractor had so many exclusions in its policy it’s a wonder the policy covered anything at all. It certainly didn’t cover the injury claim associated with this week’s first case. The second case doesn’t fare much better. The contractor couldn’t convince its insurer or two courts that it deserved coverage against a breach of contract suit.

In a case that’s making contractors and insurers quake in their steel-toed boots, a Connecticut jury awarded $32.2 million to an injured steel worker.

Our last case follows up on a case we’ve covered in past issues—United States f/b/o Doten’s Construction v. JMG Excavating & Construction Co.

This week’s issue wraps up with a few stories in the news recently and this month's Digest.

Digests: CCA takes a look at some of the headlines in Construction Claims Monthly’s January issue 2006.

BRIEFLY NOTED: A $25 million whistleblower case and multiple arrests top our news in this week’s Briefly Noted.

DISTRICT COURT UPHOLDS AWARD FOR ATTORNEY DAMAGES: Agreeing with two lower courts, a district court judge awards partial attorney fees to an insurer in a Miller Act case.