Corvias Military Living, LLC v. Ventamatic, LTD.

No. 116,307 IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF THE STATE OF KANSAS CORVIAS MILITARY LIVING, LLC, and CORVIAS MILITARY CONSTRUCTION, LLC, Appellants, v. VENTAMATIC, LTD., and JAKEL, INC., Appellees. SYLLABUS BY THE COURT 1. The Kansas Product Liability Act, K.S.A. 60-3301 et seq., governs all product liability actions, consolidating them into one basis for liability regardless of theory. 2. The economic loss doctrine—which is judicially created—bars a purchaser of an allegedly defective product from recovering from a manufacturer under a tort theory for damages that are solely economic. 3. Originally,…