A.F. Lusi Construction, Inc. v. Peerless Insurance

OPINION

FLANDERS, Justice.

This case requires us to deconstruct various construction contracts, insurance agreements, and other related documents. In particular, we must decide whether an insurer for a subcontractor on a real-estate-construction project agreed to provide liability insurance and a defense for the general contractor with respect to a lawsuit alleging that the general contractor was negligent. After hacking our way through a dense thicket of so-called incorporation-by-reference, flow-down, and additional-insured provisions contained in the pertinent documents, we answer this…