Howard v. Dun & Bradstreet, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that an accountant has no duty to third parties, even those who accountant knew or should have known were relying on his audit; liability can be found only upon fraudulent conduct, and proof of mere negligence will not suffice
• “an accountant is not liable for his negligence to a third party who is not in privity with the accountant”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).