Stiver v. Good & Fair Carting & Moving, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• finding “no detrimental reliance” where “plaintiff driver did not know whether or when [stalled vehicle he struck on highway] had been inspected”
• turning motor vehicle inspectors into insurers of inspected vehicles “would increase their liability insurance premiums, and the modest cost of a State-mandated safety and emission inspection . . . would inevitably increase”
• “If New York State motor vehicle inspection stations become subject to liability for failure to detect safety-related problems in inspected cars, they would be turned into insurers.”
• mechanic hired by defendant to inspect vehicle not liable to plaintiff subsequently hit by vehicle because “there [was] no reason to believe that the inspection made [the] vehicle less safe than it was beforehand”
• “[A]s a matter of public policy, we are unwilling to force inspection stations to insure against risks the amount of which they may not know and cannot control, and as to which contractual limitations of liability might be ineffective.” (quotation and alteration omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).