Continental Casualty Co. v. Gilbane Building Co.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that where street was closed due to glass falling from nearby high-rise, restaurant rendered inaccessible to public could state claim for coverage by contractor’s liability insurer for loss of use damages
• concluding that an occurrence takes place not when a wrongful act was committed, but rather when the complainant experiences the damage, in a construction case
• suggesting that loss-of-use damages could be measured by economic harm resulting from inability to access restaurant impacted by street closure
• rejecting insurer’s interpretation that a second episode of structural damage to a building was an extension of an earlier incident of breakage
• “We read the policy as written. We are not free to revise it or change the order of the words.”
• “Tangible property rendered useless is injured and hence covered, since the definition of damages includes ‘loss of use of property resulting from property damage.’ ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).