Minnesota Session Laws - 1993, Regular Session

  
    Laws of Minnesota 1993 

                        CHAPTER 91-H.F.No. 1153 
           An act relating to civil actions; clarifying the 
          limits on recovery for economic loss caused by 
          components of manufactured goods; amending Minnesota 
          Statutes 1992, section 604.10. 
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
    Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 1992, section 604.10, is 
amended to read: 
    604.10 [ECONOMIC LOSS ARISING FROM THE SALE OF GOODS.] 
    (a) Economic loss that arises from a sale of goods that is 
due to damage to tangible property other than the goods sold may 
be recovered in tort as well as in contract, but economic loss 
that arises from a sale of goods between parties who are each 
merchants in goods of the kind is not recoverable in tort. 
    (b) Economic loss that arises from a sale of goods, between 
merchants, that is not due to damage to tangible property other 
than the goods sold may not be recovered in tort. 
    (c) The economic loss recoverable in tort under this 
section does not include economic loss due to damage to the 
goods themselves. 
    (d) The economic loss recoverable in tort under this 
section does not include economic loss incurred by a 
manufacturer of goods arising from damage to the manufactured 
goods and caused by a component of the goods. 
     Sec. 2.  [EFFECTIVE DATE.] 
     Section 1 is effective the day following final enactment 
and applies to any action begun on or after August 1, 1991. 
    Presented to the governor May 3, 1993 
    Signed by the governor May 5, 1993, 6:20 p.m.