HM 311 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Punitive Damages, Damages, Verdict

• School: JMU
• Department: Hospitality Management
• Course: HM 311
• Professor: william Frye

Document Summary

Reasonable care: actions that are ordinary or usual to protect against a foreseeable event. Foreseeability: the reasonable likelihood that a specific future incident has been foreseen and prevented. Legal cause: primary cause form which an injury follows as a natural, direct, and immediate consequence, and without which the injury would not have occurred (aka proximate cause) Negligence: failure to exercise the care that a reasonably prudent person would exercise under like or similar circumstances. Compensatory damages: damages awarded to compensate the plaintiff from pain and suffering, loss of income, and medical expenses. Punitive damages: awarded against a person as punishment for outrageous conduct. Directed verdict: an immediate decision rendered by a judge after the close of evidence, because either side failed to prove its cause. Judgement n. o. v (notwithstanding the verdict): a judgement by a trial judge that overrules all or part of the jury verdict.