http://www.housedetective.com/2008/02/24/unfair-blaming-of-home-inspectors/ Featuring America's Home Inspector: Nationally Syndicated Columnist, Barry Stone Sun, 11 Apr 2010 02:10:09 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.housedetective.com/2008/02/24/unfair-blaming-of-home-inspectors/comment-page-1/#comment-6794 Joe Farsetta Sun, 15 Nov 2009 20:28:22 +0000 http://www.housedetective.com/2008/02/24/unfair-blaming-of-home-inspectors/#comment-6794 General liability insurance, which differs from professional liability (errors and omissions) will often mitigate these liabilities. For the inspector, its a catch-22 situation. If he inspects it and breaks it, the argument is that he's liable. Unfortunately, there's no advocate for the home inspector explaining, that he simply inspected and during the course of said inspection, defective components, or components beyond their life, failed in service. They just happened to fail during the inspection. General liability insurance, which differs from professional liability (errors and omissions) will often mitigate these liabilities. For the inspector, its a catch-22 situation. If he inspects it and breaks it, the argument is that he’s liable. Unfortunately, there’s no advocate for the home inspector explaining, that he simply inspected and during the course of said inspection, defective components, or components beyond their life, failed in service. They just happened to fail during the inspection.

]]> http://www.housedetective.com/2008/02/24/unfair-blaming-of-home-inspectors/comment-page-1/#comment-157 marc Sun, 24 Feb 2008 22:35:01 +0000 http://www.housedetective.com/2008/02/24/unfair-blaming-of-home-inspectors/#comment-157 Wow, this is a great article. Thanks for publishing. Wow, this is a great article. Thanks for publishing.

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