Midwest Lumber Co. v. Dwight E. Nelson Construction Co.

How courts have described this case

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• noting that “[t]he reason for including a specific provision for ‘Builders risk or fire and extended coverage insurance ... paid for by the owner’ could be only to protect the separate interest of both [the owner and contractor] and to determine how the cost thereof was to be paid.”
• parties intended that risks of both contractor and owner to the construction contract be covered by builder’s risk insurance
• owner who contracts to procure insurance to cover contractor and fails to do so or who procures such insurance and fails to have contractor named as an insured becomes insurer of the contractor

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).