Construction defect suits are now flooding the courts of North America in greater numbers every year. The majority of construction defect suits and appellate decisions arise in a few litigious jurisdictions but are spreading across the country like Kudzu. The courts of Texas, Florida, New York, Colorado, and California have generated a great deal of the law on the subject that is then applied or adopted by other states whose courts have not seen the same volume of construction defects litigation.
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All buildings have an expected life span. None, except the Egyptian Pyramids, were designed to last eons. Yet, even the pyramids in Egypt will erode to a mound of sand given enough time, wind, water and the movement of tectonic plates. Their demise will be an expected result of age and erosion rather than a construction defect. Venerable, well-constructed, structures seldom fail because of their advanced age. Usually, they are torn down and replaced with new structures before they have time to waste away.
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