The statute of repose is a powerful defense for a design or
construction professional, since most provide an absolute bar to claims filed
outside the repose period. Tennessee’s
statute of repose was recently found to apply to contractual indemnity claims, when
the United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee granted
summary judgment to a third-party defendant sued by a landscape architect for
claims of contractual indemnity. Hinman
v. BrightView Landscape Dev., Inc., No. 3:19-cv-00551, 2022 WL 4231019, at
*1 (M.D. Tenn., Sept. 13, 2022), appeal docketed, No. 22-6019 (6th Cir.
Nov. 21, 2022).