BLAW 3175 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Strict Liability, B Lab, Benefit Corporation
Business Law 3175 Section 002
Professor DeAngelis
Lecture #21
- Modules 14 and 15
- Strict Liability in Tort
- Duty, Breach of Duty, Causation, Damage or injury
- Absolute duty to prevent any injury
- Applies to “ultrahazardous” or “unreasonably dangerous” activities
- Like blasting for construction
- You are strictly liable
- Negligence does not apply
- Product Liability
- A collection of the various theories that apply when someone is injured as
the result of an alleged defect in a product
- You do not have to prove negligence
- Applies if you are in the unreasonable risk of harm
- Like a car defect
- The company is liable for injury
- The plaintiff has to prove defect
- Ethics
- Personal decisions/values
