Country Club Owner’s New Evidence Not Enough To Reconsider Limitations Ruling

Mealey's (April 30, 2019, 9:52 AM EDT) -- BEAUFORT, S.C. — A federal judge in South Carolina on April 2 denied a country club owner’s motion to reconsider a December 2018 decision that the three-year statute of limitations barred the plaintiffs’ construction defects claims against an architect and general contractor on claims regarding water damage to a clubhouse, holding that new evidence provided by the owner did not sufficiently demonstrate that it did not know about the cause of the damage until destructive testing occurred in 2017 (Hampton Hall LLC v. Chapman Coyle Chapman & Associates Architects AIA Inc., et al., No. 17-1575, D. S.C., 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 57072)....