Whether you have a cause of action against the seller will depend much on what the terms of the sales contract were. The problem you will have is that the seller may have reasonably relied on the AI to do the inspection. Unless the seller had some reason to know that there were AD’s which had not been complied with, then a cause of action against the seller probably will fail. Even if you could prove that the seller knew or should have known that the AD’s were not complied with, the sales contract may specify that it is an AS-IS sale. The only way around that is then to plead and prove fraud.
You may however have a cause of action against the AI, depending on the circumstances.
