Zielinski v. PROFESS. APPRAISAL

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• explaining that a duty of care “is defined not by the contractual relationship between the parties but, rather, by consideration of foreseeability and fairness”
• deciding reasonable reliance inquiry at summary judgment stage
• proof of reasonable reliance required to impose a duty of care upon an attorney in favor of a non-client
• where an appraiser disclaims responsibility for investigating an aspect of the property, the appraiser cannot be held liable for any defects in areas where it has disclaimed responsibility
• plaintiffs reliance on the fact that her mortgage was approved to mean that the appraiser had found the property to be free of structural defects was unreasonable where, if the plaintiff had seen the appraisal itself she would have seen the disclaimer concerning property conditions

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).