Mealey's ( December 19, 2022, 11:00 AM EST) -- RENO, Nev. — The economic loss doctrine serves to bar some of a contractor’s third-party construction defects claims against an architecture firm and engineering firm that provided designs to a developer that hired the contractor to construct a new home because the contractor’s claims were tort-based and he sought only economic damages, a Nevada federal judge found in granting the two firms’ motions to dismiss....