Berschauer/Phillips Construction Co. v. Seattle School District No. 1

How courts have described this case

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• holding that, under the economic loss rule, a contractor was not allowed to recover purely economic damages from a design professional in tort and recovery was limited to remedies provided by the construction contract
• noting that fees “charged by architects, engineers, contractors, developers, vendors, and so on are founded on their expected liability exposure as bargained and provided for in the contract”
• applying economic loss rule to construction contractor's claim that inspector's negligence in failing to competently inspect structural steel work increased construction costs
• affirming lower court ruling that a contractor could not recover purely economic damages from an architect in a tort action
• affirming lower court rul ing that a contractor could not recover purely economic damages from an architect in a tort action
• limiting recovery for construction delays to contract remedies to increase “predictability in allocating risk”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).