Hughes v. Potomac Insurance

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• holding house, which was structurally undamaged but perched at edge of cliff due to landslide, suffered direct, physical loss
• holding house unusable and suffered physical loss when backyard fell away in landslide, leaving house perched on the edge of a cliff, despite no structural damage to the house itself
• finding a house was unsafe and allowing coverage after a landslide caused a portion of the ground surrounding property to collapse
• infiltration of rain water (excluded peril) and rain (included peril) cause rise in ground water, causing a landslide, leaving insured’s house on a cliff (the loss)
• property uninhabitable after a portion of the soil under the structure gave way to a landslide
• property uninhabitable after a portion of the soil under the structure gave way to a landslide

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).