In Barrie v. V.P. Exterminators, Inc., 625 So. 2d 1007 (La. 1993), the inspector issued a report which indicated there was no physical evidence of active and/or old infestation from subterranean termites. Relying upon the report, the buyers purchased the home. They later found extensive damage and claimed the inspector was negligent in misrepresenting the condition of the premises. The Court explained: "The scope of the duty that the inspection company owed to the buyers was to use reasonable care and competence in obtaining or ascertaining facts for and/or in communicating the facts or opinion in the wood destroying insect report" Id. at 1016. The Court further explained that the duty was owed to the buyers because they were known to the inspection company and were the intended users of the report. The Court also stated that the buyers' expected use of the report made their loss a foreseeable probability. Id.