Holding the "narrow" exception to the economic loss rule is "limited to a defendant's affirmative misrepresentations on which a plaintiff relies and which expose a plaintiff to liability for personal damages."
14 Cal.App.4th 612 (Cal. Ct. App. 1993) Cited 387 times
Holding that " demurrer for uncertainty is strictly construed, even where a complaint is in some respects uncertain, because ambiguities can be clarified under modern discovery procedures."
Holding that a complaint's factual allegations "'are conclusive concessions of the truth of a matter,'" and that this principle "encompasses allegations that a contract incorporates specified terms or clauses"