Torts and contracts.

• Author: Schultz, Matt
• Position: Letters - Letter to the editor

The recent article, "Tort and Contract Actions: Strange Bedfellows No More in the Wake of Tiara Condominium," (December 2013) points out the inefficiencies that might follow from Tiara Condominium, but makes no real case to outweigh them (if indeed they come to pass). The article bemoans the prospect of tort causes of action now being pled in conjunction with contract claims, and it predicts "the general public and Florida businesses will struggle to determine if they can continue to allocate the risks and rewards of a transaction by contract." Perhaps another and better way to view the issue is to ask whether a contract should serve as a license to commit tortious acts. As Tiara...