Information-Technology Firm Not An ‘Information’ Provider Under Negligent Misrepresentation Economic Loss Exception (ND IL)

Publications International Limited v. Mindtree Limited, 2014 WL 3687316 (N.D.Ill. 2014) looks at whether a Web site developer is financially responsible for  a customer’s multiple system crashes. The plaintiff on-line consumer products reviewer sued the defendant information-technology firm after the plaintiff’s site kept malfunctioning.  The plaintiff sued for breach of the parties’ written consulting agreement …