LSB 3213 - Exam 5 All Answers Correct - If Warren experiences severe emotional distress after a rock crashes through his roof from Wiley
Blasting Company, his best recovery theory against Wiley would be:
️Strict Liability - Written defamation is referred to as:
️Libel - Which statemen...
- If Warren experiences severe emotional distress after a rock crashes through his roof from Wiley
Blasting Company, his best recovery theory against Wiley would be:
✔️Strict Liability
- Written defamation is referred to as:
✔️Libel
- Which statement is true regarding tortious interference with prospective advantage?
✔️The law protects against interference with potential business contracts and other business
relationships.
- What are the two main defenses against negligence claims?
✔️Comparative negligence and assumption of the risk.
- If Betty incurs $100,000 in damages from an accident with Veronica, and the jury finds Veronica 75% at
fault and Betty 25% at fault, under comparative negligence, what amount will Betty recover from
Veronica?
✔️$75,000
- Tort is defined as:
✔️A civil wrong where one party's action or inaction causes a loss to another party.
- Tortfeasor is defined as:
✔️One who commits a civil wrong against another resulting in injury to personal property.
- Tortious conduct refers to:
✔️The wrongful action or inaction of a tortfeasor.
, - Restatements of Torts are:
✔️An influential document from the American Law Institute summarizing general principles of U.S.
tort laws, recognized by courts as a source of widely applied legal principles.
- Takeaway Concept 1:
✔️Most tort law is governed by state common law based on the Restatement of Torts.
- Takeaway Concept 2:
✔️Products liability laws usually combine state common law and state statutory law.
- Intentional torts are defined as:
✔️A category of torts where the tortfeasor willfully brings about an event causing harm to another
party.
- Negligence is defined as:
✔️A category of torts where the tortfeasor acts without willful intent in causing harm to another
party.
- Strict liability refers to:
✔️A category of torts where a tortfeasor can be held liable for an act regardless of intent or
willfulness; this primarily applies to defective products and abnormally dangerous activities.
- Libel is described as:
✔️Written defamation, where one publishes untruthful statements about another that harm their
reputation or expose them to hatred or ridicule.
- Slander is defined as:
✔️Oral defamation, where one tells falsehoods about another that damage their reputation or expose
them to contempt.
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