/ ABOUT THE CLAIM / In the wake of a recent storm, one of Guardian’s insurance carrier clients received a claim from one of its commercial policyholders. The subject property is a 1976-build, 25,000 sf, concrete building clad with brick veneer. The roof of the structure is low slope, with a modified bitumen built-up roof with a granulated membrane cap...

/ ABOUT THE CLAIM: Recently, a Texas homeowner filed a property claim with his insurance carrier regarding cracks on his interior gypsum wallboards. His theory was that a leak in the sewer line beneath the home had disturbed the foundation, thus creating the cracks. He noted that the sewer line started in a central bathroom. Upon receiving notice of the...

ABOUT THESE TYPES OF CASES: When most of us hear about slip and fall lawsuits, thoughts often turn to late-night television commercials for ambulance-chasing personal injury attorneys or, perhaps, to fictional lawyers such as Jimmy McGill from AMC’s “Better Call Saul” whose amoral stunts had once earned him the nickname “Slippin’ Jimmy.” But people do indeed slip and fall, and...