LAW 142 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Reasonable Person, Reinsurance, Personal Injury
Document Summary
Negligence, intentional torts and strict liability: elements of negligence (duty of care; standard of care; causation; remoteness; damages; defences, paying for torts: liability insurance and accident compensation. A civil wrong between individuals for which the victim can get some legal remedy in the private law system. Slip and fall: medical malpractice, products liability, environmental disasters (pollution, spills, people in the wrong place at the wrong time. Administrative law (boads, public authorities, how they interact with citizens) Rights between individuals: could be a corporation can sue another person, can also be liable to pay for damages or compensation. Torts: private wrong, civil wrong, involving dispute between two individuals. Goal is to compensate individuals for harm they have taken. Tort case: standard: standard of probability, 51%, to prove tort against someone, prove more likely then not, 51% probable that person committed tort. Person being sued, allegedly is the wrongdoer, tortfeaser, is the defendant.
