Question juridique clé
Whether the claimants could sue the defendants for their own direct loss
Solution extraite
No. As cessionaries of the bankruptcy estate, they could only claim damage caused directly to the company and indirectly to creditors, not their own direct loss.
Motifs extraits
The provisions invoked did not protect creditors exclusively, and no tort or culpa in contrahendo was alleged. The claim therefore had to proceed via the ceded estate claims only.