Lloyd F. Smith Co. v. Den-Tal-Ez, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that although U.C.C. provides the exclusive remedy in commercial transactions, consumer could still maintain tort actions for economic loss
• holding that the U.C.C. applies to a sub-purchaser’s cause of action based on the defective product itself and any consequential damage resulting therefrom
• discussing scope of economic loss doctrine and relying on Hapka rather than Minn. Stat. § 604.10
• applying a summary judgment standard when ruling on an amendment to the pleadings to assert settlement as an additional claim in the original lawsuit
• discussing significant differences between the accrual of tort statute of limitations and the accrual of breach of warranty statute of limitations
• noting that a party cannot recover economic loss due to damage to the defective product itself and that “this economic loss includes consequential damages for repair and loss of profits resulting from inability to use the defective product during the period of its replacement or repair”

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