Pennsylvania Manufacturers' Ass'n Insurance v. L.B. Smith, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• “The ‘gist of the action’ doctrine is designed to maintain the conceptual distinction between breach of contract and tort claims.”
• “The purpose and intent of a general liability insurance policy is to protect the insured from liability for essentially accidental injury to the person or property of another rather than coverage for disputes between parties to a contractual undertaking.”
• “[Negligence in repairing the [machinery] did not cause the original defect and mechanical problems. The breach of contract and negligence claim arose from contractual obligations undertaken by LBS in relation to the sale and subsequent attempts to repair the [machinery].”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).