Category: Lemon Law

North Carolina sets its days-out-of-service threshold at 20 business days, which is below the 30-day national norm and one of the lowest in the country.

New York gives consumers two features that almost no other state offers in combination. The first is a 4-year delivery-based filing window, the longest among

New Mexico’s lemon law covers motorcycles. That alone separates the statute from the regional norm, because most state lemon laws either exclude motorcycles entirely or

Missouri’s lemon law is one of the few in the country that makes the attorney-fee award mandatory rather than discretionary. The court “must” award the

New Hampshire is one of the few states that makes the consumer affirmatively pick a forum after the lemon law presumption attaches. The election is

The Center for Auto Safety ranks New Jersey’s lemon law as the most consumer-friendly in the country. Three repair attempts. Twenty cumulative days out of

Mississippi is one of the rare states whose lemon law explicitly extends to the living facilities of a recreational vehicle, not just the chassis and

Minnesota is one of the rare states where a single failed repair attempt can attach the lemon law presumption, but only when the defect is

Michigan is the home base of the Detroit Three, and the state's lemon law reflects that. The notice and cure rules are tighter than most

Massachusetts is one of only four states with a separate used-car lemon law. The new-car statute at Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 90 § 7N½ sits

Maryland caps the manufacturer's use-offset deduction in a lemon law buyback at 15% of the purchase price. Most states use a per-mile formula with no

Maine sets one of the lowest days-out-of-service thresholds in the country at 15 business days, and runs its own Lemon Law Arbitration Program through the

Louisiana sets the highest days-out-of-service threshold in the country at 45 calendar days. Most states use 30 days, and a handful go as low as

Kentucky has the shortest lemon law coverage window in the country. The statutory protection runs for the earlier of 12 months or 12,000 miles from

Kansas's lemon law contains a presumption trigger almost no other state offers. After 10 total attempts to any nonconformities, the presumption attaches, even if no

Iowa is one of the few states whose lemon law statute deliberately punishes manufacturers that file weak appeals to delay payment. The base remedy includes

Indiana's lemon law statute does something most state lemon laws do not. The two-year statute of limitations runs from the first report of the nonconformity

Illinois has one of the shortest coverage windows in the country at one year or 12,000 miles, and the New Vehicle Buyer Protection Act has

Idaho is one of the only states that writes a Consumer Protection Act crossover directly into its lemon law statute. Idaho Code § 48-913 deems

Hawaii routes every lemon law claim through a single state-administered venue. The State Certified Arbitration Program, run by the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs,