Federated Mutual Insurance v. Grapevine Excavation Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding, under Texas law, that damage to a parking lot caused by negligent construction constituted an accident because it was an “unexpected, unforeseen or undesigned happening or consequence”
• “When, as here, liability could be imposed pursuant to either a contractual indemnity provision or a generally applicable legal principle, the contractual liability exclusion will not bar coverage.”
• “Similarly here, there has been no suggestion that the damage to the surface of the parking lot can be restored by ‘the repair, replacement, adjustment or removal of’ GEI's underlying work.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).