SOREN-HODGES v. Blazer Homes, Inc.

In this negligence action, the trial court granted summary judgment to defendant Blazer Homes, Inc. (Blazer), 1 concluding that plaintiffs’ action seeking damages for Blazer’s allegedly substandard construction of their home was barred by claim preclusion because plaintiffs had already brought an earlier action against Blazer for breach of contract stemming from the same construction project. Plaintiffs contend that claim preclusion cannot operate as a bar to the present action because it is based on alleged defects that, at the time of the first action, they neither knew of nor could…