Allowing subsequent home buyers to sue builders for allegedly latent defects some 12 years after a home was built would create a host of “horrors,” an attorney representing a builder argued before the state Supreme Court.

Paul Rosen of Spector Gadon & Rosen told the high court that extending the implied warranty would inflate builders’ liability and costs, and would make litigating cases more than a decade after a home was built nearly impossible.

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