Statute of Repose

The Rhode Island Supreme Court has held that the statute of repose applies to a claim for breach of the implied warranty of habitability. Homeowners bought a house directly from they builder in 1997. In 2012, the homeowners discovered water infiltrat… Read More

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has held that the statute of repose on a multi-building, multi-phase project commences on a building by building basis. Thus, a condominium association filing suit after completion of 28 buildings has been tol… Read More

The Supreme Court of Minnesota has ruled that the MN statute of repose, for a multi-building condominium project, is determined on a building-by-building basis, and not on completion of the entire project. As noted below, a federal court judge in Mas… Read More

It’s a controversial decision on a controversial topic, but a federal court judge has held that the statute of repose on a multi-phase project was triggered by the last phase, and not sooner. In Massachusetts, the six-year statute of repose clock s… Read More

A sharply divided Supreme Judicial Court has held that claims by a homeowner against a contractor, under the state home improvement contractor law, are subject to the statute of repose. Thus, when improper work done in 2001 was not discovered until 2… Read More

Gotta hand it to them. Plaintiffs who presumably recognized that any claim for design or construction defects would be barred by the New Jersey statute of repose filed a lawsuit alleging that the developer misrepresented the quality of the septic sys… Read More

A condo association will be allowed to proceed with a lawsuit against the original developers filed 15 years after completion of the project, and despite a 10-year statute of repose. A divided Illinois Supreme Court has applied a “fraud-based” ex… Read More