BILT-RITE CONTRACTORS, INC. v. ARCHITECTURAL STUDIO


866 A.2d 270 (2005)

BILT-RITE CONTRACTORS, INC., Appellant v. THE ARCHITECTURAL STUDIO, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided January 19, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mason Avrigian, Jr., Blue Bell, for Bilt-Rite Contractors, Inc., appellant.

Maura Zajac McGuire, Nicholas Noel, Easton, for The Architectural Studio, appellee.

Before: CAPPY, C.J., CASTILLE, NIGRO, NEWMAN, SAYLOR and EAKIN, JJ.


OPINION

Justice CASTILLE.

This appeal raises the first impression question of whether a building contractor may maintain a negligent misrepresentation claim against an architect for alleged misrepresentations in the architect's plans for a public construction contract, where there was no privity of contract between the architect and the contractor, but the contractor reasonably relied upon the misrepresentations in submitting its winning bid and consequently...

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