Healthcare Law - Criminal/Civil Law Certification Exam Review Questions Fully Solved A+ Score.
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Module
CIVIL LAW.
Institution
CIVIL LAW.
Civil Law - correct answer In civil law, a private party (e.g., a corporation or individual person) files the lawsuit and becomes the plaintiff. In criminal law, the litigation is always filed by the government, who is called the prosecution.
Fundem...
Civil Law - correct answer In civil law, a private party (e.g., a corporation or
individual person) files the lawsuit and becomes the plaintiff. In criminal law, the litigation is always filed
by the government, who is called the prosecution.
Fundemential Differences b/w Criminial and Civil law is: - correct answer One
of the most fundamental distinctions between civil and criminal law is in the notion of punishment.
In criminal law, a guilty defendant is punished by either - correct answer (1)
incarceration in a jail or prison, (2) fine paid to the government, or, in exceptional cases, (3) execution of
the defendant: the death penalty.
Crimes are divided into two broad classes: - correct answer felonies have a
maximum possible sentence of more than one year incarceration, misdemeanors have a maximum
possible sentence of less than one year incarceration.
In contrast, a defendant in civil litigation is - correct answer never incarcerated
and never executed. In general, a losing defendant in civil litigation only reimburses the plaintiff for
losses caused by the defendant's behavior.
So-called punitive damages are - correct answer never awarded in a civil case
under contract law.
In a civil case under tort law, there is a possibility of punitive damages, if the defendant's conduct is -
correct answer egregious and had either (1) a malicious intent (i.e., desire to
cause harm), (2) gross negligence (i.e., conscious indifference), or (3) a willful disregard for the rights of
others. The use of punitive damages makes a public example of the defendant and supposedly deters
future wrongful conduct by others. Punitive damages are particularly important in torts involving
dignitary harms (e.g., invasion of privacy) and civil rights, where the actual monetary injury to plaintiff(s)
may be small.
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