Management and Organizational Studies 2275A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Contributory Negligence, Vicarious Liability, Financial Compensation

• School: Western University
• Department: Management and Organizational Studies
• Course: Management and Organizational Studies 2275A/B
• Professor: Philip King

Document Summary

Categorizing tort law: intentional tort, harmful act that is deliberate or committed on purpose, ex. False imprisonment wrongly accusing someone of shop lifting and preventing her from being where she has a lawful right to be: ex. Injuring someone else is can bring an action of negligence: the same event can fall under two legal consequences one in tort, one in criminal, ex. Injured brings the legal action forward: action is called civil action because its enforcing a right that belongs to an individual, defendant vs. Liability in tort: primary liability one"s own personal wrongdoing, vicarious liability due to the relationship that someone has to the person who actually commits the tort. Liability and joint tort-feasors: those who commit a tort with others are known as join tort-feasors. If a company had a customer injured by a ceiling-mounted loudspeaker which fell onto him due to improper installation by two employees, those two co-workers would have joint liability for those injuries.