Construction Insurance and UK Construction Contracts
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APPENDIX 9
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JCT Management Building Contract 2011
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Section 6 - injury, damage and insurance
Injury to persons and property
Liability of Management Contractor - personal injury or death
6.1 The Management Contractor shall be liable for, and shall indemnify the Employer against, any expense, liability, loss, claim or proceedings whatsoever in respect of personal injury to or the death of any person arising out of or in the course of or caused by the carrying out of the Project, except to the extent that the same is due to any act or neglect of the Employer, of any of the Employer’s Persons or of any Statutory Undertaker.Liability of Management Contractor - injury or damage to property
6.2 The Management Contractor shall be liable for, and shall indemnify the Employer against, any expense, liability, loss, claim or proceedings in respect of any loss, injury or damage whatsoever to any property real or personal in so far as such loss, injury or damage arises out of or in the course of or by reason of the carrying out of the Project and to the extent that the same is due to any negligence, breach of statutory duty, omission or default of the Management Contractor or of any of the Management Contractor’s Persons. This liability and indemnity is subject to clause 6.3 and, where Insurance Option C (Schedule 3, paragraph C.1) applies, excludes loss or damage to any property required to be insured thereunder caused by a Specified Peril.Injury or damage to property - Project and Site Materials excluded
6.3- 1 Subject to clauses 6.3.2 and 6.3.3, the reference in clause 6.2 to “property real or personal” does not include the Project, work executed and/or Site Materials up to and including whichever is the earlier of:
- 1 the date of issue of the Practical Completion Certificate; or
- 2 the date of termination of the Management Contractor’s employment.
- 2 Where a Section Completion Certificate is issued in respect of a Section, that Section shall not after the date of issue of that certificate be regarded as “the Project” or “work executed” for the purpose of clause 6.3.1.
- 3 If clause 2.25 has been operated, then, after the Relevant Date, the Relevant Part shall not be regarded as “the Project” or “work executed” for the purpose of clause 6.3.1.
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Insurance against personal injury and property damage
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Management Contractor’s and Works Contractors’ liability insurance
6.4- 1 Without prejudice to his obligation to indemnify the Employer under clauses 6.1 and 6.2, the Management Contractor shall take out and maintain insurance in respect of claims arising out of the liability referred to in clauses 6.1 and 6.2 which:
- 1 in respect of claims for personal injury to or the death of any employee arising out of and in the course of such person’s employment, shall comply with all relevant legislation; and
- 2 for all other claims to which clause 6.4.1 applies,1 shall indemnify the Employer in like manner to the Management Contractor (but only to the extent that the Management Contractor may be liable to indemnify the Employer under the terms of this Contract) and shall be in a sum not less than that stated in the Contract Particulars for any one occurrence or series of occurrences arising out of one event.2
- 2 The Management Contractor shall ensure that each Works Contractor takes out and maintains insurance in accordance with clause 6.5.1 of the Works Contract Conditions.
- 3 As and when reasonably required to do so by the Employer, the Management Contractor shall send, and shall ensure that each Works Contractor sends, to the Architect/Contract Administrator for inspection by the Employer documentary evidence that the insurances required by clause 6.4.1 or 6.4.2 have been taken out and are being maintained, and at any time the Employer may (but shall not unreasonably or vexatiously) require that the relevant policy or policies and related premium receipts be sent to the Architect/Contract Administrator for such inspection.
- 4 If the Management Contractor or any Works Contractor defaults in taking out or in maintaining insurance in accordance with clause 6.4.1 or 6.4.2 the Employer may himself insure against any liability or expense which he may incur as a result of such default and the amount paid or payable by him in respect of premiums therefor may be deducted from any sums due or to become due to the Management Contractor under this Contract or shall be recoverable from the Management Contractor as a debt.
Management Contractor’s insurance of liability of Employer
6.5- 1 If the Contract Particulars state that insurance under clause 6.5.1 may be required, the Management Contractor shall, if instructed by the Architect/Contract Administrator, take out a policy of insurance in the names of the Employer and the Management Contractor3 for the amount of indemnity there stated in respect of any expense, liability, loss, claim or proceedings which the Employer may incur or
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- 1 for which the Management Contractor is liable under clause 6.2; or
- 2 which is attributable to errors or omissions in the designing of the Project; or
- 3 which can reasonably be foreseen to be inevitable having regard to the nature of the work to be executed and the manner of its execution; or
- 4 (if Insurance Option C applies) which it is the responsibility of the Employer to insure under paragraph C.1 of Schedule 3; or
- 5 to the Project and Site Materials except where the Practical Completion Certificate has been issued or in so far as any Section is the subject of a Section Completion Certificate; or
- 6 which arises from any consequence of war, invasion, act of foreign enemy, hostilities (whether war is declared or not), civil war, rebellion or revolution, insurrection or military or usurped power; or
- 7 which is directly or indirectly caused by or contributed to by or arises from the Excepted Risks; or
- 8 which is directly or indirectly caused by or arises out of pollution or contamination of buildings or other structures or of water or land or the atmosphere happening during the period of insurance, save that this exception shall not apply in respect of pollution or contamination caused by a sudden identifiable, unintended and unexpected incident which takes place in its entirety at a specific moment in time and place during the period of insurance (all pollution or contamination which arises out of one incident being considered for the purpose of this insurance to have occurred at the time such incident takes place); or
- 9 which results in any costs or expenses being incurred by the Employer or in any other sums being payable by the Employer in respect of damages for breach of contract, except to the extent that such costs or expenses or damages would have attached in the absence of any contract.
- 2 Any insurance under clause 6.5.1 shall be placed with insurers approved by the Employer, and the Management Contractor shall send to the Architect/Contract Administrator for deposit with the Employer the policy or policies and related premium receipts.
- 3 The amounts expended by the Management Contractor to take out and maintain the insurance referred to in clause 6.5.1 shall be included in the Prime Cost.
Excepted risks
6.6 Notwithstanding clauses 6.1, 6.2 and 6.4.1, the Management Contractor shall not be liable either to indemnify the Employer or to insure against any personal injury to or the death of any person or any damage, loss or injury to the Project, Site Materials, work executed, the site or any other property, caused by the effect of an Excepted Risk.Insurance of the project
Insurance options
6.7 Insurance Options A, B and C are set out in Schedule 3. The Insurance Option that applies to this Contract is that stated in the Contract Particulars.4
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Related definitions
6.8 In Schedule 3 and, so far as relevant, in the clauses of these Conditions the following phrases shall have the meanings given below:
All Risks Insurance5: insurance which provides cover against any physical loss or damage to work executed and Site Materials and against the reasonable cost of the removal and disposal of debris and of any shoring and propping of the Project which results from such physical loss or damage but excluding the cost necessary to repair, replace or rectify:
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- (a) property which is defective due to:
- (i) wear and tear,
- (ii) obsolescence, or
- (iii) deterioration, rust or mildew;
- (b) any work executed or any Site Materials lost or damaged as a result of its own defect in design, plan, specification, material or workmanship or any other work executed which is lost or damaged in consequence thereof where such work relied for its support or stability on such work which was defective6;
- (c) loss or damage caused by or arising from:
- (i) any consequence of war, invasion, act of foreign enemy, hostilities (whether war be declared or not), civil war, rebellion, revolution, insurrection, military or usurped power, confiscation, commandeering, nationalisation or requisition or loss or destruction of or damage to any property by or under the order of any government de jure or de facto or public, municipal or local authority,
- (ii) disappearance or shortage if such disappearance or shortage is only revealed when an inventory is made or is not traceable to an identifiable event, or
- (iii) an Excepted Risk.
- (a) ionising radiations or contamination by radioactivity from any nuclear fuel or from any nuclear waste from the combustion of nuclear fuel, radioactive toxic explosive or other hazardous properties of any explosive nuclear assembly or nuclear component thereof (other than such risk insofar, but only insofar, as it is included in the Terrorism Cover from time to time required to be taken out and maintained under this Contract);
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- (c) any act of terrorism that is not within the Terrorism Cover from time to time required to be taken out and maintained under this Contract.
Works Contractors - Specified Perils cover under Joint Names Policies
6.9- 1 The Management Contractor, where Insurance Option A applies, and the Employer, where Insurance Option B or C applies, shall ensure that the Joint Names Policy or Policies referred to that Option shall either:
- 1 provide for recognition of each Works Contractor as an insured under the relevant Joint Names Policy; or
- 2 include a waiver by the relevant insurers of any right of subrogation which they may have against any such Works Contractor