Divided Massachusetts High Court Upholds Dismissal Of Faulty Wiring Suit

Mealey's (September 4, 2018, 1:37 PM EDT) -- BOSTON — A woman’s 2016 lawsuit claiming that the installation of faulty wiring by a subcontractor in 2001 caused a fire at her home in 2012 was properly dismissed by a trial court judge as untimely, a 4-3 Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts ruled Aug. 29, finding that the woman’s claim under Massachusetts’ Consumer Protection Law was “sufficiently tort like” and, thus, subject to the six-year statute of repose (Terry Bridgwood v. A.J. Wood Construction Inc., et al., No. SJC-12352, Mass. Sup., 2018 Mass. LEXIS 561)....