Management and Organizational Studies 2275A/B : Ch 12 Other Torts.docx

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

Document Summary

Business activity whether it involves generating electricity, cutting hair, filing tax returns, it involves interactions that may ultimately have negative impact on others and their property. A business that may have interfered with a legitimate interest of another could be subject to a tort. Tort relevant to a business can be conveniently divided between those that arise because a business occupies a property and those that arise because of actual business operations. Tort actions most commonly arise when the occupier of the property harms others: occupier someone who has some degree of control over land or building of that land. An enterprise conducting business on property is an occupier, whether it is a tenant, or temporary provider of a service. Occupiers liability describes the liability that occupiers have to anyone who enters onto their land or property, varies by jurisdiction.