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Building regs come back to bite gov in new Opal claim

  • 30/06/2020
  • Author Jimmy-T

The government’s new regulations on building defects may have come back to bite them on the bum, with owners of apartments in the infamous Opal Tower in Sydney suing the…

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    The claim game – detecting defects is just the beginning

    • 26/11/2019
    • Author Jimmy-T

    You’ve just bought into a new apartment block and cracks have started to appear, or the roof leaks when it rains, or the fire safety measures wouldn’t stop a tea…

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      Ticking clocks and closing windows – time to deal with defects

      • 24/09/2019
      • Author Jimmy-T

      Towards the end of last century, around about the time state governments started allowing apartment block developers to appoint their preferred certifiers, launching the self-certification scandal, HIH Insurance collapsed. HIH…

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        Podcast: Everything you never knew about strata insurance

        • 02/07/2019
        • Author Jimmy-T

        One of the big questions around the recent Mascot Tower problems was why didn’t the building insurance kick in, rather than the state government having to bail the owners corporation…

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          Strata insurance just got a lot smarter

          • 13/06/2016
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          It’s a staple joke in just about every cop show – don’t shoot him … it’s too much paperwork. We hate filling in forms, don’t we?  And as for the…

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            Who pays when upstairs kitchen floods?

            • 14/08/2015
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            Who picks up the bill when a two flats are flooded by a defective dishwasher and neither party is insured? The question was raised by Flatchatter “Powers That Be”, a…

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