Soderberg v. McKinney

How courts have described this case

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

• applying Bily to real estate appraisers because the court could see no reason why Bily should be limited to accountants or auditors
• reinstating negligent misrepresentation claim because appraiser knew investors, a class of persons to which plaintiff belonged, would rely on report prepared for mortgage broker
• applying section 552 approach, not Biakanja factors, to analyze whether property appraiser might owe duty of care to investors under negligent misrepresentation theory
• stating, in the context of negligent misrepresentation claim, that “[w]hile Bily involved the liability of accountants (or auditors), we see no reason why its discussion should be limited to that group of profession- als”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).