Pekin Insurance v. Richard Marker Associates, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding insurer had a duty to defend where insured’s plumbing-installation work caused water infiltration that damaged third-party’s personal property
• where faulty workmanship caused water damage to homeowners’ furniture, clothing, and antiques, there was an “occurrence” under the contractor’s CGL policy
• CGL policies are “not intended to pay the costs associated with repairing or replacing the insured’s defective work and products, which are purely economic losses”
• “not intended to pay the costs associated with repairing or replacing the insured’s defective work and products”
• there was an “occurrence” under a CGL policy, where defective workmanship caused water damage to the homeowners’ furniture, clothing and antiques
• “A CGL Policy ‘does not cover an accident of faulty workmanship but rather faulty workmanship which causes an accident.’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).