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AMERICAN FIRE AND CAS. CO. v. FORD MOTOR

No. 97-1142.

588 N.W.2d 437 (1999)

AMERICAN FIRE AND CASUALTY CO., Appellant, v. FORD MOTOR COMPANY, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

January 21, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Philip H. Dorff, Jr. and Hugh J. Cain of Hopkins & Huebner, P.C., Des Moines, for appellant.

Paul A. Williams of Shook, Hardy & Bacon, LLP, Kansas City, and R. Todd Gaffney of Finley, Alt, Smith, Scharnberg, May & Craig, P.C., Des Moines, for appellee.

Dawn R. Siebert, Des Moines, and Frederick M. Haskins of Patterson Law Firm, Des Moines, for amicus curiae-Iowa Insurance Institute.

Considered by McGIVERIN, C.J., and HARRIS, CARTER, SNELL, and TERNUS, JJ.

HARRIS, Justice.

This case calls for another interpretation of the economic loss theory in a products liability claim, a matter on which the courts widely disagree. The trial court dismissed this suit against a manufacturer because it involved a claim only for loss of the product itself. Although much could be said for the views of those courts in disagreement with us, we cast our lot in Tomka v. Hoechst Celanese Corp., 528 N.W.2d 103

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