California’s Economic Loss Docrine Clarified in Federal Decision: State Farm v. General Electric, Co., 2025 WL 2937533 (C.D. Cal. 2025)
California’s Economic Loss Doctrine (ELD) has long been a source of confusion for subrogation professionals. The challenge is not merely understanding the doctrine’s contours, but applying it to common residential fire losses where a discrete component product damages structures and contents far beyond its own failure point. Until recently, most of the major California decisions…