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LAN/STV v. MARTIN K. EBY CONST. CO., INC.

No. 11-0810.

435 S.W.3d 234 (2014)

LAN/STV, A Joint Venture of Lockwood, Andrews & Newman, Inc. and STV Incorporated, Petitioner, v. MARTIN K. EBY CONSTRUCTION COMPANY, INC., Respondent.

Supreme Court of Texas.

Decided June 20, 2014.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Elizabeth Bloch , Husch Blackwell LLP, Austin, TX, for Amicus Curiae Atkins North America, Inc.

Charles R. `Skip' Watson, Jr. , Locke Lord LLP, Austin, TX, for Amicus Curiae CCE, Inc.

Joseph F. Canterbury, Jr. , Canterbury, Gooch, Surratt, Shapiro Stein & Gaswirth, P.C., Dallas, TX, for Amicus Curiae General Contractors of Texas, In

Bradley Wayne Snead , Henry S. Platts Jr. , Thomas C. Wright , Wanda McKee Fowler , Wright & Close LLP, Houston TX, for Petitioner.

Daniel J. Davis , Davis Law Firm, Jeffery A. Ford , Ford Nassen & Baldwin PC, Jeffrey S. Levinger , Levinger PC, Dallas, TX, for Respondent.

Chief Justice HECHT delivered the opinion of the Court.

In actions for unintentional torts, the common law has long restricted recovery of purely economic damages unaccompanied by injury to the plaintiff or his property1 — a doctrine we have referred to as the economic loss rule.2 The rule serves to provide a more definite limitation on liability than foreseeability can and reflects a preference for...

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