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House approves bill limiting civil suits by people committing crimes on private property
Summary
The Utah House passed House Bill 8, which creates a civil-defense preventing individuals committing crimes on private property from suing homeowners for injuries sustained while committing the crime. The House approved the measure 65-0 and sent it to the Senate.
The Utah House voted unanimously Tuesday to approve House Bill 8, a measure that would bar people who are committing a crime on residential property from recovering civil damages for injuries incurred while committing that crime.
Representative Lachman, sponsor of House Bill 8, told the chamber the bill "does set that defense" so that a person who is injured while committing a crime in a homeowner's house cannot later successfully sue the homeowner for those injuries. He…
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