Q: In this task, you will be shown a prompt from a judicial decision and multiple holding statements derived from citations following text in a legal decision. Holdings represent the governing legal rule when the law is applied to a particular set of facts. There are five answer choices for each citing text. The correct answer is the holding statement that corresponds to the citing text. The four incorrect answers are other holding statements. You should find the correct option. There is a <HOLDING> token in the position of the citing text prompt where the holding statement was extracted.
absence of ... (3) a "special relationship" existing between the parties ... recovery of purely economic loss is foreclosed.").) He asserts he has such a special relationship with Maserati because Maserati had "reason to know or expect the particular purposes for which the vehicle was purchased by Plaintiffs [sic] (i.e., transportation of Plaintiff and his family)." (Dkt. 22 at 15.) Plaintiff misunderstands the special relationship exception to the economic loss doctrine. The underlying purpose of the special relationship exception is to define particular "circumstances in which a party has a duty of care to avoid imposing economic losses on third parties." Mega RV Corp. v. HWH Corp., 225 Cal.App.4th 1318, 1340, 170 Cal.Rptr.3d 861 (2014), as modified on denial of reh'g (May 20, 2014) (<HOLDING>); see also J'Aire Corp. v. Gregory, 24 Cal.3d
Holding statements: (A) holding owner of limited liability company may be personally liable to third party if owner acts as agent for company and fails to disclose existence and identity of principal (B) holding there is no continuing duty to repair or recall (C) holding owner of company qualified as an employer due to inter alia his authority to hire and fire employees and overall financial control of company (D) holding that a manufacturer is under a duty to instruct a distributor (E) holding that rv repair company which repaired rv for owner did not have a duty to manufacturer of hydraulic components
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(E)