Berg v. General Motors Corp.

This appeal presents the primary question of whether the law of negligence permits recovery by a purchaser of goods against a remote manufacturer for damages constituting solely economic loss as distinguished from damage to person or property.

Loren Berg, a commercial fisherman, appeals from the trial court’s dismissal of his complaint seeking to recover lost profits and certain other consequential damages allegedly arising from the failure of two fishing boat engines which were manufactured by the respondent Detroit Diesel Division of General Motors Corporation (hereinafter referred to as…