ABSTRACT
Sometimes compensation for economic losses presents no special difficulty for American tort law. For example, this is the case when economic losses follow an intentional tort whose goal was to produce that very harm, as when the tortfeasor sought the tort victim’s economic loss through a battery or the destruction of the victim’s property. Recovery is equally certain in the more usual case when economic losses are the unintended result of an intended physical harm to the victim’s body or belongings. With more difficulty, and with some ambivalence, American law has accommodated the tort of intentional interference with contract rights when it produces economic loss.2
