Tucson Medical Center v. Sullivan

How courts have described this case

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

• finding that “unless the plaintiff can establish an independent duty of care,” a plaintiff cannot bring a negligence action “in addition to a contract action”
• noting that the economic loss doctrine bars a tort claim where it “is not really a tort claim at all” but instead is “a contract claim in tort claim clothing”
• noting that the economic loss doctrine bars a tort claim where it “is not really a tort claim at all” but instead is “a contract claim in tort claim clothing”
• refusing to apply economic loss doctrine “where there is no direct contractual relationship between the plaintiff and the defendant” because “therefore any tort claim asserted cannot possibly be a contract claim in tort clothing”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).