TOLAN AND SON, INC. v. KLLM ARCHITECTS

No. 1-98-2581.

719 N.E.2d 288 (1999)

308 Ill. App.3d 18

241 Ill.Dec. 427

TOLAN AND SON, INC., an Illinois Corporation, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. KLLM ARCHITECTS, INC., Louis K. Walter, Jr. d/b/a Louis K. Walter, Jr. and Associates, and Lawrence W. Reiss, d/b/a Reiss and Associates, Defendants-Appellees (Total Concept Land Design, Inc., and Terra Richard E. Neville, Testing, Inc., Defendants).

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, First Division.

September 30, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Steven L. Baron and Scott E. Becker; D'Ancona & Pflaum, Chicago, for Appellants.

Clausen Miller P.C., Chicago (Edward M. Kay, Douglas J. Palandech, Michael H. McColl, Imelda Terrazino, of counsel), for Appellee KLLM Architects, Inc.

Lorence H. Slutzkey and Kenneth M. Florey; Robbins, Schwartz, Nicholas, Lifton & Taylor, Ltd., Chicago, for Appellee Louis K. Walter, Jr. d/b/a Louis K. Walter, Jr. and Associates.

Stephen D. Sharp; Kovitz Shifrin & Waitzman, Buffalo Grove, for Appellee Lawrence W. Reiss d/b/a Reiss and Associates.


Justice RAKOWSKI delivered the opinion of the court:

In Moorman Manufacturing Co. v. National Tank Co., 91 Ill.2d 69, 61 Ill.Dec. 746, 435 N.E.2d 443 (1982), the Illinois Supreme Court held that a plaintiff cannot recover in tort for solely economic loss, loss that is not accompanied by either personal injury or property damage. This rule is known as the economic loss doctrine. The supreme...

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