The Wisconsin Senate will be moving ahead next week with a bill that could decrease liability and legal costs for contractors. Assembly Bill 733 would modify the state’s construction statute of repose, which contractors commonly invoke as a defense in ...
A bill containing a provision that could decrease legal costs and liability in certain lawsuits for contractors may still have a chance to make it to a vote on the Senate floor.
Legislation that that could decrease contractors’ legal costs and liability has received a boost that could have it before the Wisconsin Assembly on Thursday, the last day lawmakers in that chamber plan to meet this legislative session.
Of the scores of bills the Wisconsin Senate and Assembly plan to vote on this week, a proposal meant to shield contractors from legal costs and liability is now unlikely to be among them after stalling in committee.
A bill meant to shield contractors from legal costs and liability got a lengthy hearing on Tuesday, a day after two Republican lawmakers had introduced an amendment that would curtail parts of the proposal.