Blake Const. Co., Inc. v. Alley

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a contractor cannot recover economic losses against a design professional in the absence of contractual privity
• finding that § 8.01-223 does not eliminate foe privity requirement in a tort action for economic loss
• upholding denial of a general contractor’s common law tort claim for economic losses stemming from an architectural firm’s alleged failure to perform “with the care, skill, and diligence exercised by reasonably prudent and skillful architects” in like circumstances
• \Protection against economic losses caused by another's failure to properly perform is but one provision the contractor may require in striking his bargain.\
• “While such a duty may be imposed by contract, no common-law duty requires an architect to protect the contractor from purely economic loss.”
• “There can be no actionable negligence where there is no breach of a duty to take care for the safety of the person or property of another.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).