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RMIN 4000 UGA Edmunds Exam 4 With Complete Solutions Latest Update
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Philidelphia judicial hellhole - correct answers Reputation for excessive verdicts and its "open door" policy to out of state
Georgia judicial hellhole - correct answers Continue rise in nuclear verdicts, increasing role of third-party litigation
financing, and premise liability. trial lawyers and jackpot verdict paydays. advertising focus on truckers
legal wrong - correct answers a violation of a person's legal rights, or a failure to perform a legal duty owed to a certain
person, to a business org., or to a society as a whole
types of legal wrongs - correct answers crime, breach of contract, and tort
tort - correct answers Legal wrong for which the court allows a remedy in the form of monetary damages
plaintiff - correct answers the person who is injured
Tortfeasor - correct answers the alleged wrongdoer
categories of tort - correct answers intentional, strict liability, and negligence
intentional torts - correct answers Intentional act or omission resulting in harm or injury to another person or damage to
their property
examples of intentional tort - correct answers libel, slander, invasion of privacy, assault, patent infringements
strict liability - correct answers Liability imposed regardless of negligence or fault (damage from animals, hazardous
activities)
, negligence tort - correct answers Failure to exercise the standard of care required by law to protect others from an
unreasonable risk of harm
standard of care - correct answers not the same for each wrongful act; based on the care required by a reasonably
prudent person
elements of negligence - correct answers existence of a legal duty owed, breach of legal duty, damage or injury, and
proximate cause between act and damage
compensatory damages - correct answers compensate the injured party for the harm suffered (special and general)
special damages - correct answers lost work earnings, medical bills, property repair costs
general damages - correct answers Loss of a companion, disfigurement, pain and suffering
punitive damages - correct answers Punish the wrongdoer and to deter others from doing similar acts
contributory negligence - correct answers Injured person cannot collect if their care falls below the standard of care
required for their protection or they are 1% responsible
comparative negligence - correct answers Financial burden of injury is shared by both parties according to respective
degrees of fault
pure rule - correct answers reward is reduced in proportion to your fault
50% rule - correct answers you cannot recover if you are 50% or more at fault
51% rule - correct answers you cannot recover if you are 51% or more at fault
last clear chance rule - correct answers Plaintiff who is endangered by his or her own negligence can still recover
damages from the defendant if the defendant has a last clear chance to avoid the accident but fails to do so (car crash)
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