Surveyors professional negligence is similar in many ways to architects prof neg as it follows the same principles of why it could have happened and how to go about proving it.
Again, if the expected high level of service and professionalism is not achieved and the duty of care to you from the surveyor is broken then you could be entitled to make a claim providing you can prove it has led to financial loss.
The most common reason why a surveyor would be sued is for property surveys that miss severe defects that lower the value of the property and also prove expensive to rectify. We should point out that the courts are only likely to award in your favour the amount of the difference between the property in good condition and the value of the property in its current state.