Critical Thinking in the Legal Environment: Torts and Product Liability Fall 2009 Introduction This assignment focuses on management skills that would be utilized in critical thinking in the legal environment specifically related to torts and product liability. A manager is constantly challenged with balancing responsibilities to the shareholders to make a profitable business and protecting the best interests of the employees and customers or end users of their products/services. This is
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Recognizing and Minimizing Tort and Regulatory Risk Plan Environmental Regulation is perhaps the most stringent area of government’s regulation in business. The government imposes great technology investment demands on the industry for regulatory compliance. One single act of irresponsibility can cost businesses greatly or be forced to close (Business Regulation Simulation, 2009). It is important to identify, manage, and correct torts and regulatory risks for Alumina, Inc. so legal issues
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,2 Recognizing and Minimizing Tort Paper Jorge A Cuellar University of Phoenix LAW/531 Business Law November 08, 2010 Loi-Natalie Laing, Esq. Recognizing and Minimizing Tort Paper Alumina Inc. is a company that makes aluminum automotive components and manufacturers all packaging materials like bauxite mining, alumina refining, and aluminum smelting. The company uses some chemicals that are necessary for the process and these chemicals contain and produce carcinogen effluents that can
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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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month trial period to determine if the system with NonLinear Pro is what it is looking for. NonLinear Pro has determined that the contract lease that one of the employees signed upon receipt of the materials is attempting to hold Quick Takes Video to. Tort Risks and Violations Since the initial contract was verbal, Quick Takes Video believed the agreement reached was in force when the materials arrived. When the materials were found to not be at the standard promised, the materials were promptly returned
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You are a clerk for the judge assigned to this case. The judge asks you to prepare an essay, explaining to her why, under Illinois law, she should grant or dismiss the motion for summary judgment. Please help the judge. CASE SCENERIO: The plaintiff Alan was trying to catch a plane at Chicago's O'Hare Airport. He knew that he was late for his plane and so, he was running through the airport as fast as possible. Unfortunately, Alan does not see the banana peel that was lying on the floor in the
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approach to business Relationship with customer Pricing Role of judgment Operating structure While there are important structural differences between the two models, perhaps the single most significant difference is the attempt to replace tort law liability with a contractual form of liability. In many respects, this is essentially a return to the role of auditing at the turn of the century. Time is not reversible however, and the price that must be paid for this return to a contractual
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Making Hospitals Accountable: Hospital-Level Liability Could Revive The Dormant Deterrent Power Of Tort Liability. The major purpose of this article is to make physicians feel relaxed in their place of work without the fear of tort liability, and by making hospitals accountable for malpractices in the hospital. Also, since hospitals today have different departments, there should be a committee of medical experts that would identify areas where malpractices often occur, curtail and try to improve
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LS311 Business Law I Unit Two: Writing Assignment March 7, 2012 Introduction In this case there is an unintentional tort of negligence. This occurs when someone suffers injury because of another’s failure to live up to a required duty of car (Miller & Jentz, 2008). To make a case out of this that will hold up in court there needs to be a risk of such consequences. This being said the risk is the fact that the victim was left with permanent physical impairment. The incident was unintentional
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Recognizing and Minimizing Tort and Regulatory Risk Plan Law 531 Charles Cook January 24, 2011 Recognizing and Minimizing Tort and Regulatory Risk Plan For organizations to avoid detrimental situations that can create excessive loss for the business, it is imperative for them to Recognize and minimize the risks associated with torts. According to Henery Cheeseman, 2010, “Tort law imposes a duty on persons and business agents not to intentionally or negligently injure others in society”(Cheeseman
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