By Mike Thal
In its May 23, 2022, opinion in Cal-Am Properties, Inc. v. Edais Engineering, Inc., the Court disavowed as “no longer good law” its 1984 Donnelly ruling, which provided that a claim for breach of an implied warranty may be brought against a design professional even when there is no written contract between the parties.
That's no longer the case law in Arizona, as the opinion states: "[D]esign professionals lacking privity of contract with project owners do not owe a duty to those owners to reimburse them for purely economic damages."