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Greetings,
My question is if the liability of a home warranty company extends
beyond the home owner to the tenant/renter of the covered home.

The warranty is in the name of the home owner. A/C stopped working in
the covered home. The temerature in the home reaches 90+ degrees
without the A/C working, making it uninhabitable. As a result,
tenant/renter was displaced and rented a hotel room. State law
provides recoverery of the cost of suitable housing at a rate of not
more than 25% above the periodic rate. The daily rate is $30, so
tenant's maximum allowance is $37.50 per day.

Home owner has made attempts by way of the warranty company to resolve
the issue, and so cannot be viewed as being neglegent. If it can
successfully be argued that the warranty company acted with neglegence,
does the tenant have a cause of action against the warranty company
directly?


I seriously doubt any warrany would cover incedantal damages to the property
or other related damages (rental fees for replacement apartment) beyond the
cost of repairing or replacing the appliance or system covered. That
disclaimer is SOP on just about every warranty I ever saw. Even my auto
insurance wouldn't cover a replacement rental car unless I specifically
bought that coverage.