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Retroactive reckoning: Construction PI faces its 30-year shadow

By 2025-11-04T08:00:00

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‘Developers thought projects from 20 years ago were long tail – now they’re live liabilities again,’ says managing partner

When the government extended limitation periods under the Defective Premises Act from six years to 30, few outside the legal community grasped the scale of the change.

But as the first Building Liability Orders (BLOs) begin to land, construction professionals and their insurers are waking up to a sobering reality – a design defect from 1995 could still trigger a professional indemnity (PI) claim in 2025.

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