Aguilar v. RP MRP Washington Harbour, LLC

RP MRP (defendant) owned a riverside retail complex that flooded when it failed to raise its flood walls despite a weather warning, forcing tenant businesses to close temporarily. Aguilar and other employees of those businesses (plaintiffs) sued RP MRP for negligence, seeking only their lost wages during the closure; RP MRP moved to dismiss, and the trial court granted the motion.

Whether the economic loss doctrine bars a negligence claim for pure economic loss, absent any other injury, unless a special relationship existed between the parties.