New Jersey’s already wide-sweeping Consumer Fraud Act took in some extra territory on Wednesday, as the state Supreme Court held the statute and its treble-damages remedy can apply to contractors performing interior work on new homes.
The justices gave a narrow reading to the Act’s exemption for new-construction claims, finding the contractor in the case was engaged in the business of home improvement, not home building.
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