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House Bill 10-67 hearing: sponsor seeks limited extension of sovereign immunity to contractors; trial attorneys urge caution
Summary
House Bill 10-67 would extend protections akin to sovereign tort immunity to private contractors that perform work for public entities, sponsor Rep. Cameron Parker said at a Commerce Committee hearing.
Representative Cameron Parker told the Commerce Committee that House Bill 10-67 would extend sovereign-tort immunity to private contractors performing work under state contracts but that she planned to file an amendment to narrow the proposal to a limited set of participants and timeframes.
“Now as this is written, it's very broad and I plan to file an amendment to limit this not only, timeframe, but the participants that will be granted this sovereign immunity,” Parker said. She described contractor concerns that insurance costs rise when contractors who have done nothing on a project are nevertheless added to lawsuits related to highway…
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