Alliance: Spell Out Building Defect Laws
NU Online News Service, April 3, 1:59 p.m. EST? An insurance industry trade group is urging carriers and builders to lobby hard for legislation to reform the murky legal situation that has allowed a nationwide explosion in construction defect claims.
"Until there is a constant definition of where a contractor can be held liable, there is no end in sight to the spiraling litigation cycle," said Rodger S. Lawson, president of the Alliance of American Insurers in Downers Grove, Ill.
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