A Beacon for Homeowners and HOAs. Not So Much for Design Professionals (CA)

Earlier we wrote about a case that made architects none too happy – Beacon Residential Community Association v. Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP, Case No. A134542 (December 13, 2012) – in which the California Court of Appeals for the First District held that architects could be sued by a homeowner’s associations (“HOA”) and, by implication, individual homeowners as well, even though the architect did not perform its design services under contract with either the homeowners or the HOA.   Read more……….

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