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House codifies economic‑loss rule for construction defects, limits negligence claims
Summary
The House adopted a substitute to Senate Bill 220 codifying that contract remedies, not negligence, govern construction defects absent physical injury or intentional wrongdoing; the bill passed the House 64–9 and will go back to the Senate.
On March 3 the Utah House passed a substitute to Senate Bill 220, clarifying the causes of action available in construction-defect cases and largely preserving the economic-loss rule in state law.
Representative Urquhart (House sponsor) told the chamber the substitute clarifies that defects causing physical injury or property damage remain actionable in tort, but that construction defects themselves generally give rise to contractual remedies rather than negligence claims. He cited the state Supreme Court’s American Towers decision…
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