California Panel Affirms Exclusions Bar Coverage For Subcontractor’s Faulty Work

( July 8, 2025, 1:12 PM EDT) -- LOS ANGELES — Rejecting arguments by a developer and general contractor that a trial court erred by denying them a jury trial and by construing two faulty workmanship exclusions in a subcontractor’s businessowners insurance policy too narrowly, a California appellate court panel affirmed the trial court’s judgment in favor of the insurer in the developer and contractor’s suit to recover more than $1 million in damages and delay costs....