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July 6, 2018

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Liability of condo owners: The syndicate’s insurer should be the first target

Whenever damage occurs in a condo building, the directors of the syndicate should first make sure to exhaust all possible remedies against the syndicate’s insurer before filing a claim against a co-owner. Such is, after all, the purpose of the syndicate’s insurance policy.

This newsletter discusses a recent judicial decision in Syndicat des copropriétaires du condominium Verrières VI c. Maddalon, 2018 QCCS 2312, where the syndicate’s claim against a co-owner was dismissed because the directors failed to draw the full benefit of the syndicate’s insurance.

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