Welcome to Ungated

Really Monica you need to develop a sense of humor. You seem offended by a session title that was selected to amuse and attract attention and attendance. It was done completely tongue in cheek, as you well know since you attended. As far as Law Seminar goes, I appreciate your endorsement of the program and your continued attendance. I think that it brings together an amazing and diverse group each year to explore the challenges we face in our industry and work to devise solutions. I am sorry though that you feel the solutions don't meet your needs, the vast majority of attendees don't agree with you, based on our post-event surveys. As far as amicus filings go, our purpose in filing briefs is to address critical and broad issues that extend to all homeowners and not get involved in individual disputes of the man bites dog variety. Frankly few of those make it that far in the appelate process. To give you an example of the kinds of situations we ARE interested in, we are filing an amicus brief this week in Oregon that would protect the rights of every individual homeowner in the state (both original and subsequent owners of a property) to recover for damages related to latent construction defects. Basically, the building industry would have you believe that if there is a defect in your home and you can't live in it that is an economic loss and not a physical loss and is not compensable under Oregon law. We of course disagree and believe that if there is physical damage to your home due to a construction defect then it is a physical loss and the builder needs to be responsible for its correction. Thanks for your continued interest and participation in CAI events. See you at the 2008 Law Seminar. Tom