LGLS 1901 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Tort, Transferred Intent, Comparative Negligence

• School: Temple University
• Department: Legal Studies
• Course: LGLS 1901
• Professor: Jeffery Boles

Document Summary

Doing business today involves risks, both legal and financial. A tort is a civil injury designed to provide a remedy (damages) for injury to a protected interest. Special: quantifiable losses, such as medical expenses, lost wages, and benefits. General: non-monetary, such as pain and suffering, reputation. Punitive: punish the wrongdoer (rather than compensate for the victim) Consent- where you have the defendant harming the victim but the defendant says that the victim agreed to this (ex. Getting hit in the face during a rugby match, you can"t file a suit because you agreed to possible injury) Comparative negligence- the defendant says that yes i was negligent, but you also were negligent. Tortfeasor (the person or company who is doing the harm) must intend to commit the act. He intended the consequences of his act or. He knew with substantial certainty that certain consequences would result.