( May 22, 2026, 7:42 AM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A construction manager says that the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals should reverse a lower court judge’s order granting its insurers’ motion for summary judgment, arguing that the judge misinterpreted the meaning of the phrase “during the course of construction” in its policy’s course of construction exclusion (COCE) when the judge concluded that the insurers owed no duty to defend the construction manager in an underlying case regarding issues with the laying of concrete flooring....