Indianapolis-Marion County Public Library v. Charlier Clark & Linard, P.C.

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• finding the product “purchased from the Defendants was an integral part of the entire library construction project, not independent from it.”
• anticipating exceptions to Indiana’s economic loss rule for breach of independent duties of care including “lawyer malpractice, breach of a duty of care owed to a plaintiff by a fiduciary, [and] breach of a duty to settle owed by a liability insurer to the insured”
• economic loss doctrine precluded negligence claims by an owner against parties connected to it through “a network or chain of contracts”
• economic loss doctrine applies to bar tort claims against design professionals where there is privity of contract
• “[T]he policy justifications for the economic loss rule discussed throughout this opinion amply support applying the rule to products and services alike.”
• “[Wjhen it comes to claims for pure economic loss, the participants in a major construction project define for themselves their respective risks, duties, and remedies in the network or chain of contracts governing the project.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).