FMR Corp. v. Boston Edison Co.

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• reaffirming that, absent a showing of personal injury or physical damage to property, the economic loss doctrine ordinarily bars the recovery of economic losses incurred because of another’s failure to execute a contract according to its terms
• affirming award of summary judgment in favor of defendants on claims for lost income and increased costs of operation from negligently caused blackout
• affirming summary judgment in favor of the defendant power company and contractor where the commercial plaintiffs brought negligence claims alleging purely economic damages caused by power outages
• “purely economic losses are unrecoverable in tort and strict liability actions in the absence of personal injury or property damage”
• economic loss doctrine precluded recovery for lost income and increased costs of doing business due to three-day power outage resulting from defendant’s negligence
• plaintiff-consumers cannot claim a contract existed between themselves and the electric company, solely because the electric company filed a tariff with the Department of Public Utilities pursuant to G.L.c. 164

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