Blue Cross v. McDevitt & Street Co.

We granted this appeal to consider whether the trial court erred in ruling that an owner of a building contractually had waived its rights to recover from the general contractor and the architect damages for a loss covered by a property insurance policy.

Blue Cross of Southwestern Virginia and Blue Shield of Southwestern Virginia (collectively, the owner) engaged the partners in Hayes, Seay, Mattern & Mattern (the architect) to design, and McDevitt & Street Company (the contractor) to construct, the owner’s headquarters building in Roanoke. The three parties memorialized their agreements in…