Corporex Development & Construction Management, Inc. v. Shook, Inc.

{¶ 1} Today we are called upon to decide whether the economic-loss rule bars a building project owner from recovery of purely economic damages in tort against a subcontractor, based upon breach of contractually created duties. We find that it does.

{¶ 2} In reviewing this case, we are mindful of the fact that appellant Shook’s judgment in the trial court was entered as a judgment on the pleadings under Civ.R. 12(C). Thus, we are required to accept as true all the material allegations of the complaint of appellee Dublin Suites, Inc. (“DSI”), with all the inferences to be drawn therefrom to be…