BUL 3130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Damages, Punitive Damages, Reasonable Person
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Chapter 9: negligence and strict liability: negligence and strict liability are torts. Person having a stroke while driving and crashing into people: duty: plaintiff must establish the defendant owes a duty to the plaintiff. Reasonable person standard: a measurement of the way members of society expect an individual to act in a given situation. Duty to warn- about risks they may encounter unless the risk is open and obvious. Came up with proximate cause, foreseeability analysis. Helping guy on train, dropped newspaper and shot off fireworks hitting lady. Not reasonably foreseeable: dire(cid:272)t t(cid:448) (cid:272)o(cid:373)(cid:373)er(cid:272)ial of gu(cid:455) e(cid:374)di(cid:374)g up i(cid:374) a dit(cid:272)h (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause his (cid:272)a(cid:271)le is(cid:374)"t (cid:449)orki(cid:374)g. Proof of these 3 elements permits the finding of negligence. If the defe(cid:374)da(cid:374)t"s (cid:448)iolatio(cid:374) (cid:272)auses the plai(cid:374)tiff to suffer fro(cid:373) the t(cid:455)pe of har(cid:373) the statute intends to prevent, the violation is deemed negligence per se.
