Allied Prop. Casualty Ins. v. Beazer Homes Holdings

Full title: ALLIED PROPERTY AND CASUALTY INSURANCE COMPANY, a foreign corporation…

Court: United States District Court, D. Nevada

Date published: Oct 22, 2010

2:09-CV-626 JCM (PAL) (D. Nev. Oct. 22, 2010)

Opinion

2:09-CV-626 JCM (PAL).

October 22, 2010

ORDER

JAMES MAHAN, District Judge

Presently before the court is plaintiff Allied Property and Casualty Insurance Company's motion to reconsider order granting defendant's motion for partial summary judgment upon plaintiff's tort claims for economic damages (doc. # 83). Defendant Beazer Homes Holdings Corporation filed an opposition (doc. #84). Plaintiff filed a reply (doc. #85).

On May 14, 2010, the court heard oral arguments from the parties regarding the defendant's motions for partial summary judgment (docs. #61 and #62). The court denied the motion for partial summary judgment upon plaintiff's negligence claim (doc. #62), and granted the motion for partial summary judgment upon plaintiff's tort claim for economic damages (doc. #61). In ruling, the court agreed with the defendant that the economic loss doctrine applied to the case, barring the plaintiff's recovery.

In its present motion for reconsideration, the plaintiff asserts that the economic loss doctrine precludes recovery of purely economic losses in tort absent bodily injury or damages to property other than the product itself. Calloway v. City of Reno, 116 Nev. 250, 993 P.2d 1259 (2000), overruled on other grounds, Olson v. Richard, 120 Nev. 240, 89 P.3d 31 (2004). Further, plaintiff asserts that it is undisputed that the product caused damages to property other than itself and the house in which it was installed, "including but not limited to two automobiles, furniture, carpeting, clothing, bedding, hand tools, power tools, electronic items, golf clubs, Christmas decorations and luggage."

Good cause appearing,

IT IS HEREBY ORDERED, ADJUDGED, AND DECREED that plaintiff Allied Property and Casualty Insurance Company's motion to reconsider order granting defendant's motion for partial summary judgment upon plaintiff's tort claims for economic damages (doc. # 83) be, and the same hereby is, GRANTED.

IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED that a rehearing on defendant Beazer Homes Holdings Corporation's motion for partial summary judgment upon plaintiff's tort claim for economic damages (doc. #61) be held before this court on November 19, 2010, at 10:00 am.

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that defendant Beazer Homes Holdings Corporation file any supplemental reply with the court within ten (10) days from the date of this order.

DATED this 22^nd day of October, 2010.