Source: https://www.irmi.com/, February 28, 2025
By: Patrick Wielinski

Domino toppling involves standing up dominoes in a sequence known as a domino run and then knocking down the first one in line to strike  the next, which knocks that one down to strike the next, and so on, creating a chain reaction referred to as a domino effect. The analogy to falling dominoes is frequently applied in everyday parlance, and a domino effect is a cumulative effect produced when one event  initiates a succession of similar events. This article likens the decades’ long raft of litigation over the concept of “occurrence” as applied to property damage arising out of construction defects to a domino effect moving inexorably to increased coverage for construction insureds. Read more.