Contractors in Dispute over Hurricane Damage Lose Bid for Builder's Risk Coverage

BATON ROUGE, La. - A Louisiana appellate court has affirmed a decision denying builder's risk coverage to contractors blamed for water intrusion in a newly built medical center during two hurricanes in 2005. TCC Contractors Inc., et al. v. Hospital Service District No. 3, et al., No. 2010 CA 0685 (La. Ct. App., 1st Cir.).

Louisiana's First Circuit Court of Appeal on Dec. 8 affirmed decisions for Continental Casualty Co., which wrote builder's risk and commercial property policies for the medical complex's owner that didn't name the contractor or subcontractors as additional insureds.

TCC Contractors Inc. was the general …