The Complex Insurance Coverage Reporter

MOLD EXCLUSION

American Guar. & Liab. Ins. Co. v. Victory Highlands Condo. Ass’n, 2024 N.J. Super. Unpub. LEXIS 3128 (N.J. Super. Ct., App. Div., Dec. 26, 2024)

New Jersey appeals court concludes that claims by a condominium resident alleging injury from indoor exposure to mold did not fall within a “consumption” exception to mold exclusions^* in CGL policies where the resident demonstrated only that mold was present on his food and not that he was injured by eating mold on the food. It reasoned that, if the resident needed to prove only that there was mold on his food, and not that he ... Continue Reading