McGowan v. State Farm Fire & Casualty Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding faulty workmanship provision relieved insurer of duty to defend against claim for damages to repair mistakes in the construction of the insured’s home
• work is not complete or abandoned for purposes of PCOH when contractor is terminated from construction project for im proper work
• “Exclusionary clauses exempting the insurer from providing coverage in certain circumstances must be written in clear and specific language and construed in favor of coverage.”
• “[W]ork must be ‘deemed completed’ for the property damage at issue to constitute a products-completed operations hazard.”
• \General ligbility insurance policies . are not intended to be the equivalent of performance bonds.\
• “The insurer therefore has the burden of demonstrating that the policy exclusion applies in the particular circumstances at issue and that it is not susceptible of any other reasonable interpretation.” (citation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).