Like the Energizer Bunny, mold keeps going and going and going. And, unfortunately for contractors, lawsuits keep coming and coming and coming. And those contractors without mold insurance will be the ones hurting down the litigation road, warned Robert Snyder, who heads the Air Conditioning Contractors of America's (ACCA's) Insurance Service.
In Snyder's estimation, now more than ever HVACR contractors must understand their mold exposure and how they can manage it. According to the vice president of Environmental Risk Management for The Fedeli Group (Independence, Ohio), one recent phenomenon arising out of the explosion in mold litigation is that experts are increasingly attributing mold growth to the installation, operation, and design of air conditioning systems.