Reply To: BC Liability for Plumbing Failure
One issue you will find if you claim on the Buildings legal liability insurance is that you may only be able to claim for the depreciated cost of the carpets.…
Reply To: Owner altering common property – how to stop him?
The local council should be interested. Any internal alterations that involve moving doors have the potential to change the way fire spreads in the building and the options people have…
Reply To: BC Liability for Plumbing Failure
It’s tricky because to be successful in claiming legal liability you generally need to establish negligence. Burst common property pipes are usually an event that is not due to OC/BC…
Reply To: BC Liability for Plumbing Failure
JT is right, but you would have been better off with your own insurance. Your insurer would be working for YOU; you would not be arguing the case against an…
BC Liability for Plumbing Failure
When we bought our unit ten years ago we decided that insuring its contents was unnecessary. This week a water pipe in the ceiling space above our unit burst and…
Smoker who accidentally started Lacrosse fire cost builders $377,000
Building surveyors, architects and fire engineers will all have to compensate builders LU Simon up to $12.5 million for the cost of repairing and replacing flammable cladding on Melbourne’s Lacrosse…
Opal Tower owners don’t know how lucky they are
The owners of apartments in the now notorious Opal Tower probably don’t realise it, but they are lucky. Obviously, it was bad luck that supporting walls in their building in…
Reply To: Dealing with tenants who "don't exist"
I agree that it would normally be the contractor’s insurance. A very good reason to make sure all contractors engaged by an OC have current insurance (and appropriate trade licenses…
Reply To: Dealing with tenants who "don't exist"
If the Contractor caused the damage, it would be claimed under his/her insurance rather than the Strata’s is my understanding unless they go bust or something and it would…
Seminar: Don’t get burnt by flammable cladding
Should you be worried if you have flammable cladding on your building? The simple answer is yes, of course – but perhaps not for the obvious reasons. While the dangers…
Reply To: Water damage to individual lot, who pays?
There can be quite a difference between being responsible for the maintenance and repair of an item (like a burst water pipe) and being liable for any damage that it…
Reply To: Water damage to individual lot, who pays?
I agree with the strata manager. Carpet is a lot responsibility and neither the OC/BC nor the OC/BC’s insurance company need to pay for its restoration unless the water leak…