Wisconsin Supreme Court Bars Tort Claims Against Siding, Roofing Subcontractors

MADISON, Wis. - The Wisconsin Supreme Court held by a slim majority on July 8 that the economic loss doctrine bars a homeowner's negligent construction tort claims against roofing and siding subcontractors. Linden v. Cascade Stone Company Inc., No. 2004AP4 (Wis. Sup. Ct.).

Writing for the 4-3 majority, Supreme Court Justice Patience Drake Roggensack said, 'we conclude that the integrated system limitation of the other property exception to the economic loss doctrine is applicable where the subcontractor mainly provided services that have no independent value or use apart from their function as components of the product into which they were …