{"id":2149,"date":"2013-10-02T06:58:19","date_gmt":"2013-10-02T12:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myconstructionexpert.com\/blog\/?p=2149"},"modified":"2013-09-30T14:11:25","modified_gmt":"2013-09-30T20:11:25","slug":"sb800-is-now-optional-to-the-homeowner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myconstructionexpert.com\/blog\/sb800-is-now-optional-to-the-homeowner\/","title":{"rendered":"SB800 Is Now Optional to the Homeowner?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>James Ganion &#8211; August 30, 2013<\/p>\n<p>Dear Builders, Colleagues, and Interested Parties:<\/p>\n<p>I attach for your review a copy of this week\u2019s opinion of the California Court of Appeal in our case of Liberty Mutual v. Brookfield. This opinion represents a significant change to the right of California builders to repair homes under SB800, California\u2019s Right to Repair Act.<\/p>\n<p>In a nutshell, the Court determined that SB800 was not intended to replace prior applicable law, but merely be supplemental to prior law. Thus, a homeowner, or in this case the homeowner\u2019s insurer, can pick and choose among SB800 and prior law, or even allege both in the alternative. In so deciding, the Court of Appeal reversed the holding of the trial court which had held, as so many trial courts have since 2003, that SB800 was intended to be the new exclusive remedy for construction defect claims.<\/p>\n<p>While we of course take issue with most of what the Court of Appeal has to say, the real life net effect is that SB800 is now optional to the homeowner, meaning the \u201cright\u201d to repair now lies in the hands of the homeowner who can elect to simply bypass that law and proceed with the filing of a lawsuit under prior law. Hardly what any of us believe the legislature intended.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/constructiondefectjournal.com\/archives\/inside-issue\/2013\/08\/sb800-now-optional-homeowner\">SB800 Is Now Optional to the Homeowner? | www.constructiondefectjournal.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Ganion &#8211; August 30, 2013 Dear Builders, Colleagues, and Interested Parties: I attach for your review a copy of this week\u2019s opinion of the California Court of Appeal in our case of Liberty Mutual v. Brookfield. This opinion represents a significant change to the right of California builders to repair homes under SB800, California\u2019s&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.myconstructionexpert.com\/blog\/sb800-is-now-optional-to-the-homeowner\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SB800 Is Now Optional to the Homeowner?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14,4,172],"tags":[228,19,434,435],"class_list":["post-2149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-construction-2","category-construction-defects","category-construction-law-2","tag-construction-defect-claims","tag-construction-defects-2","tag-right-to-repair-act","tag-sb-800","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>SB800 Is Now Optional to the Homeowner? - Advise &amp; Consult, Inc.<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.myconstructionexpert.com\/blog\/sb800-is-now-optional-to-the-homeowner\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"SB800 Is Now Optional to the Homeowner? - Advise &amp; Consult, Inc.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"James Ganion &#8211; August 30, 2013 Dear Builders, Colleagues, and Interested Parties: I attach for your review a copy of this week\u2019s opinion of the California Court of Appeal in our case of Liberty Mutual v. 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