Originally Posted by
FlyingMBA
It's a bit of a moving target, and I think might depend on local legislation. In my understanding of Canadian law, a BOC is a tort if it wasn't due to negligence, but that could be a outdated.
Any lawyers in the readership here that could shed some light? Just out of interest.
Breach of contract is not itself a tort, however, you can have concurrent liability in contract and tort. Such tortious liabilities would arise from such things as negligent misrepresentation, negligent supply of shoddy goods/services, tort of deceit, etc.
A key distinction between BOC and a tort is that BOC does not, absent an independent cause of action, bring about non-pecuniary damages, where tort actions can.