Constant, Benjamin & Co. v. Parish of East Carroll

How courts have described this case

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• describing “Florida’s independent tort doctrine” as an “off-shoot of the economic loss rule” and explaining that, thereunder, a plaintiff cannot recast breach of contract claims as tort claims”
• barring constructive fraud claim as to one defendant on the basis of the independent tort doctrine as Plaintiff alleged no conduct separate from the Licensing Agreement upon which that claim could be based
• “District courts in Florida have thus held that it is well settled that a plaintiff may not recast causes of action that are otherwise breach-of-contract claims as tort claims.” (cleaned up)
• “The doctrine is an off-shoot of the economic loss rule, which barred tort actions ‘when the parties were in contractual privity and one party sought to recover purely economic damages in tort for matters arising from contract.’” (citation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).