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MGMT 209 CHAPTER 5
Major types of torts correct answers - Intentional tort
- Negligence
- Strict liability
Crime is wrong against __, and a tort is a wrong against __ __. correct answers Society.
Private party.
What is the fundamental results of criminal law and tort law? correct answers Deterrence of activi...
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SOLUTIONS.
Major types of torts correct answers - Intentional tort
- Negligence
- Strict liability
Crime is wrong against __, and a tort is a wrong against __ __. correct answers Society.
Private party.
What is the fundamental results of criminal law and tort law? correct answers Deterrence of
activities considered to be wrong
What are strict liabilities limited to? correct answers Reserved for abnormally dangerous
activities
In what ways are victims appeased? correct answers - Receipt of compensation
- Knowledge of the fact that the transgressor is punished by being required to pay
Two costs associated with accidents: correct answers - The cost of preventing accidents
- The actual costs of accidental injuries
Types of compensatory damages: correct answers - Past and future medical expenses
- Past and future economic loss
- Past and future pain and suffering
When are testimonies regarding damages typically introduced? correct answers After the liability
of the defendant has been established.
- There is no need to waste the court's time with damage evidence if the defendant is not
responsible
Which types of cases are punitive damages typically awarded in? correct answers Intentional
torts and for negligence cases where the conduct was "gross negligence" or "willful and wanton"
disregard for the plaintiff's safety
Which case stated that punitive damages awarded by civil juries are not "fines" within the
historical context of the 8th Amendment correct answers Browning-Ferris-Industries of
Vermont, Inc. v. Kelco
What is the most common type of tort reform? correct answers Limits on punitive damages to a
multiple of the actual compensatory damages.
- States have imposed these limits in response to claims of injustice by the insurance companies
How do business get involved in a tort? correct answers - Due to the actions of the business itself
or its employees
, - Due to its own actions against another business
- Due to its products
Types of intentional torts: correct answers - Personal: assault and battery, false imprisonment,
intentional infliction of mental or emotional distress, invasion of privacy, malicious prosecution,
fraudulent misrepresentation (fraud)
- Business: Disparagement, false advertising, intentional interference with contractual relations,
or interference with prospective economic advantage
- Property: basic property law, trips to real property/ trips to land/ trespass, trespass to personal
property, conversion, or nuisance
Case dealing with assault and the question of reasonable fear and employer liability? correct
answers Hill v. Western Union Telegraph
Why are civil assault and civil battery cases rare? correct answers They are often handled under a
criminal case and a viaticum gets court ordered restitution
What is the first defense? correct answers Consent
What are some types of defense to assault and battery? correct answers Privilege, self-defense
What is the "Castle Doctrine" of Texas and "stand your ground law" of Florida? correct answers
Statutory law that have changed common law that allow an indvidual to use deadly force in
certain situtations to protect themselves and their property
Most common false imprisonment situtation correct answers Shopkeeper's privilege
Texas courts list of the elements of intentional infliction of emotional distress: correct answers -
The defendant acted intentionally or recklessly
- The defendant's conduct was extreme and outrageous
- The actions of the defendant caused the plaintiff emotional distress, and
- The emotional distress suffered by the plaintiff was severe
Which case makes clear that the highest court is Texas is discourages the use of the tort
associated with intentional infliction of mental or emotional distress if it can be covered by
another tort and that this is being followed by the lower appellate courts in Texas? correct
answers Hoffman-La Roche Inc. v. Zeltwanger
Which case is an example of where tort for intentional infliction of mental or emotional distress
was successful? correct answers Tidelands Automobile Club v. Walters
During which case did the Texas Supreme Court recognize the tort of Intentional Infliction of
Emotional Distress? correct answers Twyman v. Twyman
Texas lists the elements to the tort of Invasion of Privacy to be as follows: correct answers - The
Defendant intentionally intruded on the plaintiff's solitude, seclusion, or private affairs, and
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