Holding that underwriter of initial public offering had fiduciary duty to disclose to issuer its "compensation arrangements with its customers," whereby it was to receive percentage of profits generated in post-offering resales
Holding that a contract's requiring a party "to appoint sub-distributors does not, as a matter of law, make the sub-distributors intended beneficiaries"
Holding that multiple, direct and substantive communications and personal meetings with the relying customers established a relationship sufficiently approaching privity
Holding near privity existed between law firm and non-client third party where law firm addressed and sent opinion letter to non-client and knew non-client would rely on letter in making a debt restructuring decision
Finding that expert's affidavit stating, inter alia, that alarm company's actions fell "`far below professional standards and customary practice in the industry'" failed to raise question of gross negligence
Holding that there is nothing to support "an inference that Congress, by enacting IRCA, demonstrated a clear and manifest intent to supersede—at least where illegal aliens are concerned—traditional state tort or labor laws determining the compensatory damages recoverable for personal injuries"