“In Maryland Condominium and HOA Construction Defect Cases, the 10-year statute of repose for contractors, architects and engineers comes into play whenever damage or injury from a latent common area construction defect first occurs more than 10-years after the date that the community was completed. If the statute applies, it bars a condominium association or HOA from bringing a construction defect legal claims against a contractor, architect, or engineer that would otherwise be permissible under Maryland’s “discovery rule” extension of “accrual” under the general 3-year statute of limitations.     Read the article…………………………….