FMR Corp. v. Boston Edison Co.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• 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

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

72 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

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  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2003-05-16· cited 175×
• Giles v. General Motors Acceptance Corp.
  Ninth Circuit· 2007-08-10· cited 151×
• Cummings v. HPG International, Inc.
  First Circuit· 2001-03-22· cited 118×
• Coastal Conduit & Ditching, Inc. v. Noram Energy Corp.
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2000-09-14· cited 100×
• Cumis Insurance Society, Inc. v. BJ's Wholesale Club, Inc.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2009-12-11· cited 98×
• Berish v. Bornstein
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2002-06-28· cited 89×
• Clark v. Rowe
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1998-11-06· cited 47×
• Aldrich v. ADD Inc.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2002-06-21· cited 47×
• Santos v. U.S Bank National Association
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2016-07-08· cited 37×
• Lewis v. General Electric Co.
  D. Massachusetts· 1999-02-12· cited 24×
• Rule v. Fort Dodge Animal Health, Inc.
  D. Massachusetts· 2009-03-11· cited 22×
• MacGlashing v. Dunlop Equipment Co.
  First Circuit· 1996-07-25· cited 20×
• Arthur D. Little International, Inc. v. Dooyang Corp.
  D. Massachusetts· 1996-05-16· cited 19×
• Priority Finishing Corp. v. LAL Construction Co.
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1996-07-15· cited 17×
• Watkins v. OMNI LIFE SCIENCE, INC.
  D. Massachusetts· 2010-03-09· cited 14×
• Dill v. American Home Mortgage Servicing, Inc.
  D. Massachusetts· 2013-03-28· cited 14×
• Universal Trading & Investment Co. v. Bureau for Representing Ukrainian Interests in International & Foreign Courts
  D. Massachusetts· 2012-09-19· cited 13×
• Cruickshank v. Clean Seas Co.
  D. Massachusetts· 2006-07-13· cited 11×
• Langton v. Commissioner of Correction
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1993-06-07· cited 11×
• Wyman v. Ayer Properties, LLC
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2014-07-10· cited 10×

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• East River Steamship Corp. v. Transamerica Delaval Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1986-06-16· cited 1,227×
• Stop & Shop Companies, Inc. v. Fisher
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1983-01-11· cited 92×
• Bay State-Spray & Provincetown Steamship, Inc. v. Caterpillar Tractor Co.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1989-02-13· cited 82×
• Barber Lines A/s v. M/v Donau Maru
  First Circuit· 1985-06-14· cited 61×
• Marcil v. John Deere Industrial Equipment Co.
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1980-04-24· cited 57×
• New England Power Co. v. Riley Stoker Corp.
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1985-05-14· cited 51×
• Canal Electric Co. v. Westinghouse Electric Corp.
  D. Massachusetts· 1991-02-01· cited 17×
• Boston Edison Co. v. City of Boston
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1984-01-18· cited 15×