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Condo & HOA Insurance December 23, 2025

What Condo and HOA Boards Need to Know About Insurance Replacement Costs and Code Compliance

     Condominium associations frequently insure aging common elements, such as clubhouses, recreation centers, maintenance buildings, and other shared facilities, under replacement cost property insurance policies. Condominium and homeowners associations may assume that replacement cost coverage will fully fund rebuilding after a catastrophic loss. However, as Piatt Lake Bible Conference Association v Church Mutual Insurance Co., No. 2:23-CV-73, 2025 WL…
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Board of Directors December 1, 2020

Condo Board Members Protected by Qualified Privilege in Co-Owner’s Defamation Claim

In Square Lake Hills Assn v Garland, unpublished opinion of the Court of Appeals,  Docket No. 350403, issued November, 12, 2020, the Michigan Court of Appeals upheld a ruling of the Oakland County Circuit Court that dismissed a defamation claim brought by a co-owner against a condominium association,individual board members and the management company on the basis that the allegedly…
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