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Ruminations on the Relationship Between the Economic Loss Rule and Claims for Breach of Fiduciary Duty

by Thomas Wade Young
The court-created doctrine known as “the economic loss rule” arose from the idea that, because parties may allocate risks and remedies through contract negotiations, tort remedies should not be available simply because an unhappy contracting party deems negotiated contractual remedies insufficient. The doctrine began in the context of products liability cases, but rapidly expanded in Florida to bar tort claims in other contexts, to a point “beyond [the rule’s] principled origins." So, through a decisional trilogy between 1999 and 2004, the Supreme Court of Florida systematically retracted the doctrine’s reach. In the seminal 2004 decision Indemnity Insurance Company of North America v. American Aviation, Inc., 891 So. 2d 532 (Fla. 2004), the court unanimously agreed “the economic loss rule should be expressly limited."

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March 2012
Volume 86, No. 3
A Horse Is a Horse (of Course, of Course) But Is It Agriculture? Whether Ranches Dedicated to Abused, Abandoned, and Aging Horses Qualify for “Agricultural” Classifications Under Florida’s Greenbelt Law — by Michael T. Olexa, Joshua A. Cossey, Katherine Smallwood, and Zach Broome

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