Update on the Bilt-Rite Decision
January 2006

Update - Justice Ronald Castille stated in the "Bilt-Rite Decision" "We hereby adopt Section 552 as the law in Pennsylvania in cases where information is negligently supplied by one in the business of supplying information, such as an architect or a design professional and where it is foreseeable that the information will be used and relied upon by third persons, even if the third parties have no direct contractual relationship with the supplier of information". A Federal Court Judge, Judge Baylson, in Philadelphia ruled that the Bilt-Rite decision "is best understood as limiting the application of the economic loss doctrine only to design professionals and those engaged in the business of home construction and home sales and not as to all negligent misrepresentation claims".