CHMM, LLC v. Freeman Marine Equipment, Inc.

OPINION

KOZINSKI, Circuit Judge:

The economic loss doctrine precludes recovery against a manufacturer for physical damage that the manufacturer’s defective product causes to the “product itself.” E. River S.S. Corp. v. Transamerica Delaval Inc., 476 U.S. 858, 866-71, 106 S.Ct. 2295, 90 L.Ed.2d 865 (1986). But the manufacturer can be sued for physical damage the product causes to “other property.” Id. at 867-68, 106 S.Ct. 2295. We consider whether a vessel owner may sue for the physical damage a defective vessel component causes to property that the owner adds to the vessel before the vessel is…