Malbco Holdings, LLC v. Amco Insurance

How courts have described this case

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• dismissing affirmative defenses based on general policy exclusions where insured advanced claim under specific additional collapse coverage
• dismissing affirmative defenses based on general policy exclusions where insured advanced claim under specific additional collapse coverage
• failure of floor truss system projected to cause “areas in and around the pool area [to] completely fall to the ground”
• hotel was declared unsafe for occupancy after ceiling had fallen several inches due to deteriora- tion of floor truss system, and emergency shoring was required to prevent further collapse
• “[I]t is not the trial court’s responsibility to rewrite the policy to protect the insurer. If [the insurer] wanted to limit its risk to actual and complete collapse to the ground, it could easily have done so.”
• “The word ‘abrupt’ has a plain meaning, namely sudden.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).