{"id":902374,"date":"2024-03-06T15:58:54","date_gmt":"2024-03-06T22:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myconstructionexpert.com\/blog\/?p=902374"},"modified":"2024-03-06T15:59:13","modified_gmt":"2024-03-06T22:59:13","slug":"superior-court-clarifies-meaning-of-lawful-under-statute-of-repose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myconstructionexpert.com\/blog\/superior-court-clarifies-meaning-of-lawful-under-statute-of-repose\/","title":{"rendered":"Superior Court Clarifies Meaning of &#8216;Lawful&#8217; Under Statute of Repose."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Benjamin Goshko | <a href=\"https:\/\/marshalldennehey.com\/index.php\/articles\/superior-court-clarifies-meaning-lawful-under-statute-repose\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Marshall Dennehey<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This matter concerned claims of defective construction by the plaintiff against defendant for a home built in 2004. The plaintiff\u2019s suit was filed after the 12-year limitation set forth in the Statute of Repose, 42 Pa. C.S. \u00a7 5536(a).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The plaintiff argued the Statute of Repose did not apply because the construction was \u201cunlawful\u201d in that the home had building code violations. The court had previously suggested sympathy with such arguments (see e.g.,&nbsp;<em>Calabretta v. Guidi Homes, Inc.<\/em>, 241 A.3d 436 (Pa. Super. 2020)), where it found that \u201cresolving the issue presented by appellants concerning the applicability of the statute of repose necessarily involves a determination of facts relating to whether the construction was lawful.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, in\u00a0<em>Johnson<\/em>, the court clarified that \u201clawful\u201d construction, as used in the statute, merely means that the defendant was authorized under the laws of the Commonwealth to perform the construction. The import of this decision is that technical violations of building codes in construction are not sufficient to argue construction is unlawful and beyond the protection of the statute of repose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>When one of your cases is in need of a construction expert, estimates, insurance appraisal or umpire services in defect or insurance disputes &#8211; please call Advise &amp; Consult, Inc. at 888.684.8305, or email <a href=\"mailto:experts@adviseandconsult.net\">experts@adviseandconsult.net<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Benjamin Goshko | Marshall Dennehey This matter concerned claims of defective construction by the plaintiff against defendant for a home built in 2004. The plaintiff\u2019s suit was filed after the 12-year limitation set forth in the Statute of Repose, 42 Pa. C.S. \u00a7 5536(a).&nbsp; The plaintiff argued the Statute of Repose did not apply because&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.myconstructionexpert.com\/blog\/superior-court-clarifies-meaning-of-lawful-under-statute-of-repose\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Superior Court Clarifies Meaning of &#8216;Lawful&#8217; Under Statute of Repose.<\/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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-902374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-construction-2","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>Superior Court Clarifies Meaning of &#039;Lawful&#039; 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