(Friedman D) Civil actions: limitations: real property.
Summary: Current law prohibits an action from being brought to recover damages from any person, or the person’s surety, who develops real property or performs or furnishes the design, specifications, surveying, planning, supervision, testing, or observation of construction or construction of an improvement to real property more than 10 years after the substantial completion of the development or improvement, as specified. Current law provides that the 10-year statute of limitation does not apply to actions based on willful misconduct or fraudulent concealment. This bill would similarly provide that an action for personal injury resulting from water contamination must be commenced no later than 10 years after the plaintiff discovered the injury, and would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to the provisions.