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Providers of professional services may be held liable in subordination to "economic loss doctrine"

The "economic los doctrine" impacts not merely design firms but possessors contractors and suppliers as well. The scent of this legal universal is that a lawsuit based forward alleged negligence, rather than onward breach of contract, cannot be maintained when the los is chastely economic, does not involve injury or death, and no contractual relationship exists between the parties.

Illinois has been the leading state in applying the economic los doctrine, which branchs from a 1982 ...