Macbook casing cracked

Hi team.
Being a bit of a fanboi, I always take the greatest of care of my equipment. However my macbook has developed a crack in the casework quite big of around 3cm. It runs where the lid closes with the case where the slightly raised bit of plastic is. The crack is on the right hand side on the keyboard case bit, if that makes sense.
It looks like where the lid closes with the case its been banging it until it cracks.
I had no idea damage was being caused, it was just suddenly there.
My feeling is this is a flaw in design, is it covered under warranty?

Regrettable that this happened to anyone, but try getting those kind of repair to a Windoze laptop. Could you drive to the Dell/HP/Sony/Gateway store and get anything fixed at the SmartPerson Bar, in 3 hours from discovery to fixed?
FWIW, my MB and my wife's are so far crack free, but a similar thing happened to my prior iBook, only on the left side, also common to that model, but out of the 3 year Applecare period. I attributed the problem to my bad habit of picking the cumputer up, lid open by the left front corner and carrying it around horizontally supported only on that one corner. I've now stopped myself from doing that - Any of you do that?

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