Mold Litigation Targets and Claims on Home Services

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Mold Litigation Targets and Claims

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mold remediation-related lawsuits target different types of defendants. Potential targets include: contractors, insurers, construction managers, property managers, architects, construction component suppliers, real estate agents, homeowners associations, schools, and building owners. These entities face two primary categories of damages.

The first is property repair damages. Plaintiffs pursue property damages by claiming that these entities were negligent in their design or maintenance of the property and that this negligence caused mold remediation damage to the plaintiff’s property. Property damage liability includes the repair and removal of mold damage, as well as the correction of any construction defects.

This is precisely the scenario that led to a $32 million verdict in Allison v. Fire Insurance Exchange. In that case, the Ballards, a Texas couple, filed suit against their insurance company because the insurance company failed to repair leaks that allegedly caused mold growth, property damage, the husband’s brain damage, mold remediation and the son’s asthma.