Adding to the growing number of courts that have rejected the logic that held sway in Hawaii’s Group Builders decision, the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals recently predicted the Colorado Supreme Court would hold that property damage caused by defective construction could qualify as an occurrence under a standard commercial general liability insurance policy, and…

Going into 2011, UHERO anticipated decent growth in Hawaii’s construction sector, fueled in part by active rail construction.   That did not happen.   Instead, hampered by litigation, first over the sufficiency of the survey of ancient Hawaiian burial sites, then by bid protests over the rail car manufacturer chosen for the job, and then the EIS lawsuit…

by Anna H. Oshiro

Fellow construction attorney Karin Holma and I will be giving a talk about the Group Builders decision with the GCA this Friday.  We'll talk about the current status of the case, how and when the Supreme Court could finally review the case, and whether the passage of Act 83 has had

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