AFM231 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Vicarious Liability, Misrepresentation, Contributory Negligence

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Accounting & Financial Management
• Course: AFM231
• Professor: Darren Charters

Document Summary

Meat is an ontario based food processing and distributive company. Ceo instituted recall, closed production and asked for testing. Several consumers died or sickened from a bacteria that infected the mean processed. Carelessness as a failure to show reasonable care. Plaintiff need not show that the defendant intended to cause the damage. Tort of negligence makes the defendant liable for failing to act reasonably. No longer considers the relationship between the parties but asks question in more general sense. Judged according to the standards of behavior that would be observed by the reasonable person (standard used to judge whether a person"s conduct in a particular situation is negligent) In cases involving specialized tasks, courts introduce the standard of the reasonable person with that specialized tasks: where the activity or product poses a high risk, the law imposes a higher standard of care.