Insurers bracing for potential losses from the installation of defective Chinese drywall in homes in the Southeast may find themselves named directly in lawsuits, according to legal experts.
During a recent webinar, lawyers from Nelson Levine deLuca & Horst, a Blue Bell, Pa.-based firm that represents insurers, outlined the potential for insurers to have to pay first-party claims related to drywall issues under homeowners and commercial property policies, as well as third-party claims under liability policies for drywall distributors, builders and installers.
Focusing on the liability scenarios, Robert Horst, a founding partner of the law firm, said lawsuits alleging property damage and health impacts from drywall imported from China so far have focused on Knauf, a German company with Chinese operations, and on distributors.
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