(September 22, 2020, 10:24 AM EDT) -- BATON ROUGE, La.— A Louisiana appeals court panel on Sept. 18 affirmed a trial court judge's ruling finding that fraud claims in three class action suits against a surveyor who allegedly provided erroneous reports about the elevation of their homes are perempted by the five-year statute of limitations, holding that the statutory period began to run when the surveys were submitted and that the homeowners were unable to show that any errors were intentional (April Markiewicz, et al. v. Sun Construction LLC, et al., No. 2019 CA 1590, Janet Shea, et al. v. Sun Construction LLC, et al., No. 2019 1591, Patricia Grant, et al. v. Sun Construction LLC, et al., No. 2019 CA 1592, La. App., 1st Cir., 2020 La. App. Unpub. LEXIS 164)....