Legal Opinion
Acceptance Insurance v. Syufy Enterprises
California Court of Appeal
Decided January 19, 1999No. A080638PublishedCited by 72 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
PARRILLI, J.
A contractor’s employee working on the roof of a building is injured as he climbs through a hatch providing the only roof access. The hatch was negligently maintained by the building owner. In a personal injury action by the employee, is the building owner covered by an endorsement to the contractor’s commercial general liability policy making the owner an additional insured “but only with respect to liability arising out of’ the contractor’s work for the owner? Like the great majority of courts in other jurisdictions where such issues have been considered, we conclude the…
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