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Seele Austria GmbH Co v Tokio Marine Europe Insurance Ltd
[2009] EWHC 255 (TCC)
Key Principle
Under a project/Contractors' All Risks policy whose defects exclusion is qualified by a memorandum (DE/Memorandum 18(3)), the cost of remedial works necessarily carried out to non-defective insured property to enable rectification of defective work and preserve the building's physical integrity is recoverable, even though the cost of making good the defective work itself is excluded.
Area of Law
General
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