Product Liability Reform: HB 160 (1994).

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Provides for a 15-year statute of repose in civil actions


Provides for a 15-year statute of repose in civil actions brought against design and construction professionals.  The statute would begin to run from substantial completion of the work and require that liability be assigned proportionally to the defendant’s degree of fault.

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More Work Remains on Tort Reform

This letter-to-the-editor was originally published by The Herald-Dispatch in Huntington, WV. West Virginia was a mainstay on the American Tort Reform Foundation’s “Judicial Hellholes®” list for nearly 20 years, finally […]