Summary of Contents
Foreword
CHAPTER 1 - UNINTENTIONAL INFLICTION OF ECONOMIC LOSS
§ 1. Liability for the Unintentional Infliction of Economic Loss: General Principles
§ 2. Economic Loss Defined
§ 3. Preclusion of Tort Liability Arising from Contract (Economic-Loss Rule)
§4. Professional Negligence Resulting in Economic Loss
§ 5. Negligent Misrepresentation
§ 6. Negligent Performance of Services
§ 7. Economic Loss from Injury to a Third Person or to Property Not Belonging to the Claimant
§ 8. Public Nuisance Resulting in Economic Loss
CHAPTER 2 - LIABILITY IN TORT FOR FRAUD; BREACH OF FIDUCIARY DUTY
§ 9. Fraud....................................................................................................................................... 86
§ 10. Scienter................................................................................................................................. 98
§ 11. Factual Causation; Justifiable Reliance.............................................................................. 102
§ 12. Scope of Liability............................................................................................................... 111
§ 13. Duties to Disclose; Tacit Misrepresentation....................................................................... 114
§ 14. Liability for Misrepresentations of Opinion....................................................................... 122
§ 15. Promissory Fraud................................................................................................................ 127
§ 16 Breach of Fiduciary Duty.................................................................................................... 131
CHAPTER 3 – INTERFERENCE WITH ECONOMIC INTERESTS
§ 17. Interference with Contract................................................................................................. 136
§ 18. Interference with Economic Expectation........................................................................... 160
§ 19. Interference with Inheritance or Gift................................................................................. 173
§ 20. Interference with Contract: Privileges................................................................................ 182
CHAPTER 4 - MISUSE OF LEGAL PROCEDURE
§ 21. Malicious Prosecution......................................................................................................... 188
§ 22. Probable Cause to Initiate Criminal Proceedings .............................................................. 203
§ 23. Favorable Termination of Criminal Proceedings................................................................ 217
§ 24. Wrongful Use of Civil Proceedings.................................................................................... 224
§ 25. Probable Cause to Initiate Civil Proceedings..................................................................... 237
§ 26. Abuse of Process................................................................................................................ 245
CHAPTER 5 - SECONDARY LIABILITY
§ 27. Civil Conspiracy................................................................................................................. 255
§ 28. Aiding and Abetting........................................................................................................... 263
PARALLEL TABLES
Restatement Second, Torts, to Restatement Third, Torts: Liability for Economic Harm
Table of Statutes
Table of Cases
Index
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