The court determined that real estate professionals can be liable for
negligent misrepresentation if they fail to exercise reasonable care in making representations to clients.
The broker had filed a motion to have the negligent misrepresentation allegations against it dismissed, but the U.S. District Court determined that under Illinois law, a party may allege
negligent misrepresentation if another individual owed it a legal duty, that duty was breached, and damages arose from that breach.
Misrepresentation may be innocent if a person thinks he is telling the truth; it is termed
negligent misrepresentation if someone fails to find out the truth.
Not exact matches
Arguably,
if the sites provided the information without making clear that it might not be current because records were expunged or corrected, there might be a claim for
negligent misrepresentation, false light, or even defamation, but I seriously doubt that even those claims would hold up.
As a result, Hamilton could only succeed
if he showed that there was a
negligent misrepresentation made by Allied Domecq.
Sharing MLS data that contains errors with a buyer client doesn't make you guilty of
negligent misrepresentation, even
if the buyer relied on that erroneous information in making a purchase.
If ever you feel that you have been victimized by a commissioned sales person, be it a Realtor, a Mortgage Broker / salesperson, or a fee - for - services person like an Appraiser, a new - age real estate «fee - for - service» advisor, or even by a lawyer, under the legally defined terms of Negligent Misrepresentation, or as in Crazy Guy's case, «Fraudulent Misrepresentation», stand firm if you are morally outraged by these bullying tactics, and fight the good figh
If ever you feel that you have been victimized by a commissioned sales person, be it a Realtor, a Mortgage Broker / salesperson, or a fee - for - services person like an Appraiser, a new - age real estate «fee - for - service» advisor, or even by a lawyer, under the legally defined terms of
Negligent Misrepresentation, or as in Crazy Guy's case, «Fraudulent
Misrepresentation», stand firm
if you are morally outraged by these bullying tactics, and fight the good figh
if you are morally outraged by these bullying tactics, and fight the good fight.
Nonetheless, he determined that their answer was based upon «a thin premise, an assumption, a guess, really, based upon the age of the building... made without doing any checking to ascertain
if the answer was accurate, and this assertion amounted to a
negligent misrepresentation.»