Condo Smarts: Strata faces insurance confusion after cold snap damage (BC)

Dear Tony:  Our strata building was one of the unlucky victims of the extreme cold snap, resulting in an unheated stairwell riser freezing, bursting and damaging our common areas and 11 of our 65 units. To avoid an insurance claim, the property manager and council decided to treat these all as separate claims and advised each owner to file a claim on their homeowner policies.   Read the Q&A………………………………..

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