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Engineers Join Others in Business Community for Tort Reform
The umbrella business coalition, South Carolina Civil Justice Coalition, is mounting a major push at the State House for more tort reform this year. The group’s efforts are supported by major legislators in both the House and Senate.
Engineers’ can benefit from all of the recommended changes, but the change to the statute of repose is especially important to all in the construction industry. Although the statute of repose was dropped from 13 years to 8 years in 2005, trial lawyers have found a way to make an infraction in the building codes a means to throw out the statute of repose and sue the engineer, architect, or contractor. This section of the tort reform bill alleviates that problem.
Here is a brief explanation of all of the issues bundled into the tort reform legislation. Ask your Senator and House Representative to support this tort reform legislation.
Click here to download the 2010 Tort Reform brochure<< 
ACEC-SC and SCSPE Sign Letter Concerning DHEC
ACEC-SC and SCSPE along with 13 other business organizations signed a letter to Senator Harvey Peeler, Senate Medical Affairs Committee Chair, stating their opposition to making the SC Department of Health and Environmental Control a cabinet agency.
The letter said, “Despite any individual problems we may encounter when dealing with DHEC, collectively, we find no compelling reason to restructure this vitally important agency as described in S.384. We do find, however, that there are compelling reasons not to restructure DHEC in such a fashion.”
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