Hamon Contractors, Inc. v. Carter & Burgess, Inc.

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• holding that the economic loss rule barred the plaintiff's fraudulent concealment and fraudulent misrepresentation claims
• holding that the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing subsumed the plaintiff's fraud claim
• holding that the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing precluded the defendant from misrepresenting the cause of the delays that impacted the plaintiff's performance under the parties' contract
• applying economic loss rule to bar tort claims arising from duties implicated by performance of contract for installation of underground pipe
• “[A]n actor is guilty of misfeasance when it acts affirmatively to create or increase 8 a risk to another.”
• A party is not stubbornly litigious merely because it disagrees with a ruling of the district court, as a party “cannot be faulted for attempting to convince the court to reconsider its view of the applicable law.”

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