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Torts
Section 18 . 2
30 minutes

Economic Injury

Kathleen,
Mary R Ziegler,
Molly Flash

          Why does the law treat purely economic harms differently from other types of injury? First, a definition is in order. Purely economic harms usually include financial losses unrelated to damage to the plaintiff's physical property or person. Are these injuries harder to prove or easier to fabricate? More likely to lead to limitless liability? Less foreseeable?

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