Daanen & Janssen, Inc. v. Cedarapids, Inc.

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• concluding that lack of a direct two-party contract does not affect these policies with respect to commercial parties
• noting that \the individual limited duties implicated by the law of contracts arise from the terms of the agreement between the particular parties\
• noting that \the individual limited duties implicated by the law of contracts arise from the terms of the agreement between the particular parties\
• stating that the economic-loss doctrine is designed to “protect commercial parties’ freedom to allocate economic risk by contract”
• explaining that the “application of the economic loss doctrine to tort actions between commercial parties is generally based on three policies, none of which is affected by the presence or absence of privity between the parties”
• \[I]t is more appropriate to enforce [commercial parties'] bargain than to allow an end run around the bargain through tort law.\ (quotation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).