Recognizing and Minimizing Tort and Regulatory Risk Plan Damesha N. Horace Law 531/Business Law July 19, 2010 Recognizing and Minimizing Tort and Regulatory Risk Plan A tort is a civil injury designed to provide compensation for injury to a legally protected, tangible or intangible, interest (West’s Business Law, 2004). To reduce litigation and tort liability, businesses should ensure they are educated in local, state, and federal laws, and regulations. To protect its reputation and
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Tort Law plays a major role in the world of health care. Torts, an act that is under the civil law category, describe wrongful actions executed against one without an established contract. There are three key zones that are incorporated within the Tort Law and they are as follows: infliction of mental distress, negligence, and intentional torts (Buchbinder and Shanks, 2012). Intentional torts are considered to be defamation of character, battery, invasion of privacy, false imprisonment, and assault
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Week 1- Law 122 : Why study law 1. Business decisions have legal consequences which affect profits and losses: * Some decisions impose liability, others create opportunities * Negative: dumping pollutants into environment * Positive: binding contractual party to promise 2. Risk mgmt. tool: Law sets the framework for risk, it gives you tools to manage the risk * Ex. Insurance, exclusion and limitation clauses, incorporation Dimensions of course 1.
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Law of Torts 1. Discharge of torts 2. Remedies in tort 3. Nuisance 4. Liability – absolute and vicarious 5. The case of Ashby v White 6. Explain tort-similarities & differences with crime and contract 7. Who can’t sue and who can’t be sued 8. Defenses in tort 9. Damages and its kinds 10. Negligence 11. Defamation Easement 1. Easement through prescription, custom and grant 2. Termination of easement 3. Easement and its kinds Islamic Jurisprudence 1. Sources of Islamic law
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The essay will discuss the meanings of intention, motive and malice as used in the law of torts. The law of tort is concerned with civil wrongs, in the sense that a wrong or tort is committed against an individual (which includes legal entities such as companies) rather than the state. The importance of the Law of tort is that individuals have certain interests or rights which are protected by Law. These interests are protected by a court awarding a sum of money, known as damages, for infringement
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Synopsis of Tort Cases Team C: Michael Colschen, Christina Thomason, and Shawn Glover BUS/415 April 5, 2011 Carol De Muth, Facilitator Torts and Liability Torts arise when negligent activity by one individual to another individual results in injury or liability from the action. The negligent party owes a duty of responsibility to provide recourse in the form of reimbursement through monies or other court appointed determinations as restitution for the negligent
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TORTS AND CYBER TORTS CHAPTER 12 Section 1: The Basis of Tort Law * A Tort law is designed to compensate those who have suffered a loss or injury due to another person’s wrongful act. It is meant to obtain compensation (monetary damages) or other remedies for the harm suffered. * The purpose of Tort Law: Tort law tries to protect certain things that society recognizes as an interest worth protecting such as property, intangible interests (personal privacy, family relations, reputation
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may be caused deliberately or carelessly * One person’s single harmful act to another person (deliberately or carelessly) can give rise to one or more legal liabilities * Legal Liabilities * Tortious Liability: harmful act can be a tort (civil wrong), other than breach of contract, remedy is compensation (commenced through litigation) * Vicarious Liability: Liability for harmful act caused by another * Statutory liability: harmful act by breach of statute, prosecution
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GLOSSARY – BLW 301 Segment 1 Chapter 2 Courts and Alternative Dispute Resolution jurisdiction | The authority of a court to hear and decide a specific action. | in personam jurisdiction | Court jurisdiction over the “person” involved in a legal action; personal jurisdiction | in rem jurisdiction | Court jurisdiction over a defendant’s property. | exclusive jurisdiction | Jurisdiction that exists when a case can be heard only in a particular court or type of court,
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most effective when it is a(n) _________ process. informal one-time static ongoing 5.) Assuming that statutory requirements have been met, what is protected under merchant protection statutes? Merchants are protected from the intentional torts of their customers. Merchants are protected from negligence claims on their business premises. Merchants are protected from product disparagement claims of their competitors. Merchants are protected from false imprisonment claims of persons detained
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