Key legal question
Whether the insured's decision to forgo a professional site supervisor constituted an essential aggravation of risk under the insurance contract.
Extracted holding
Yes. Renouncing professional supervision was a fact material to risk assessment and amounted to an essential aggravation.
Extracted reasoning
Risk on an excavation site depends heavily on the qualifications of those directing the works; the insured's personal supervision was materially less qualified than professional supervision.