National Housing Building Corp. v. Acordia of Virginia Insurance Agency, Inc.

National Housing Building Corporation (“NHBC”) brought suit against Acordia of Virginia Insurance Agency, Inc. (“Acordia”), for negligence and breach of an oral contract by failing to include NHBC as a named insured on a policy of builders risk insurance. The trial court granted Acordia’s motion to strike NHBC’s evidence for failure to prove “a covered cause of loss,” even though it found that Acordia was negligent in failing to list NHBC as a named insured on the policy.

On appeal, NHBC asserts ten assignments of error, all of which revolve around the trial court’s refusal to allow recovery…