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Cause of Action for Fraud Based Upon Alleged Misrepresentation of Insurance Coverage Not Stated

The First Department determined plaintiff had not stated a cause of action for fraud.  The fraud cause of action was based upon defendant’s alleged misrepresentation that it had procured insurance to protect plaintiff against default by the largest subcontractor on the construction project.  It was not disputed that no such insurance was procured:

…[P]laintiff’s fraud claim fails, because “merely alleging that the breach of a contract duty arose from a lack of due care will not transform a simple breach of contract into a tort”…. Plaintiff’s “subjective claims of reliance on defendants’ expertise” do not give rise to a “confidential relationship” whose “requisite high degree of dominance and reliance” existed prior to the alleged fraud…. Defendants had no advisory capacity as to plaintiff, and a special relationship of trust and confidence does not arise merely from an arm’s-length business transaction…. In any event, to maintain a claim for fraud, plaintiff must show that its reliance on an alleged misrepresentation was justifiable or reasonable…. Here, plaintiff neither inquired of the subcontractor nor of the subguard provider if the subcontractor was covered… .Moreover, “[a]n actionable fraud claim requires proof that defendant made a misrepresentation of fact which was false and known to be false”…. A defendant’s knowledge of an allegedly false representation ….must be established…, and plaintiff’s affidavit stating that “it is inconceivable that [defendants] were unaware …was insufficient to establish scienter in this case. Waterscape Resort LLC v McGovern, 2013 NY Slip Op 04709, 1st Dept, 6-20-13

 

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