Any person who is induced to contract for a work of improvement, including but not limited to a home improvement, in reliance on false or fraudulent representations or false statements knowingly made, may sue and recover from such contractor or solicitor a penalty of five hundred dollars ($500), plus reasonable attorney’s fees, in addition to any damages sustained by him by reason of such statements or representations made by the contractor or solicitor.
Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 7160
Home Improvement Business
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case Ghomeshi v. Sabban (2010)
Most recently applied in Dave v. Baessler (In re Baessler) (July 2018)
Added by renumbering Section 7028.2 by Stats. 1972, Ch. 1138.
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