Daanen & Janssen, Inc. v. Cedarapids, Inc.

¶1. This case is before the court on a certified question from the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, pursuant to Wis. Stat. § 821.01 and Circuit Rule 52. The question certified to this court is: In the absence of privity, 1 does the economic loss doctrine bar a remote commercial purchaser from recovering economic losses from a manufacturer under theories of strict liability and negligence? After reviewing the policies on which this and other courts have relied when employing the economic loss doctrine, and applying those underlying policies to this case, we answer the…