BALFOUR BEATTY v. RUMMEL KLEPPER & KAHL

No. 14, Sept. Term, 2016.

155 A.3d 445 (2017)

451 Md. 600

BALFOUR BEATTY INFRASTRUCTURE, INC. v. RUMMEL KLEPPER & KAHL, LLP.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Filed: February 21, 2017.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gregory S. Martin (Martin Hild, P.A., Maitland, FL; Roger C. Jones , Lucas F. Webster , Huddles Jones Sorteberg & Dachille, P.C., Columbia, MD), on brief, for petitioner.

John A. King ( Patrick James Attridge , Ronan A. Geronimo , King & Attridge, Rockville, MD), on brief, for respondent.

Jonathan C. Shoemaker , Lee & McShane, PC, Washington, DC, Amicus Curiae for the American Council of Engineering Companies of Maryland, the American Council of Engineering Companies of Virginia, the American Council of Engineering Companies, the Society of Civil Engineers, the American Institute of Architects, the Maryland Society of Professional Engineers and the National Society of Professional Engineers.

Barbera, C.J., Greene, Adkins, McDonald, Watts, Getty and Lynne A. Battaglia (Senior Judge, Specially Assigned), JJ.


In this appeal we revisit the elusive economic loss doctrine, to decide whether to extend a duty in tort to persons not in privity for the recovery of purely economic losses. Petitioner, a general contractor who successfully bid for work on a City of Baltimore construction project, argues that Respondent, the project's design engineering...

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