Idaho High Court: Builder’s Landslide Damages Claims Are Time-Barred

Mealey's (March 29, 2023, 10:24 AM EDT) -- BOISE, Idaho — In rejecting a “novel” economic loss doctrine argument from a homebuilder who brought professional negligence claims against an engineering firm and an architecture firm, the Idaho Supreme Court unanimously determined, in two separate decisions, that the statute of limitations barred the builder’s claims because they were brought two years after a landslide damaged a home that was under construction....