CHAPTER 10: TORTS: NEGLIGENCE AND STRICT LIABILITY

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CHAPTER 10TORTS NEGLIGENCE AND STRICT
LIABILITY
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CHAPTER 10 NEGLIGENCE AND STRICT LIABILITY

• Learning Objectives
• Prima Facie Case of Negligence
• Duty of Care
• Special Doctrines Indicating Negligence
• Actual and Proximate Causation
• Defenses to Negligence
• Strict Liability
• Theory
• Recent Trends

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PRIMA FACIE CASE OF NEGLIGENCE

• Five Elements
• Duty
• Breach of the Duty
• Actual Cause
• Proximate Cause
• Damage

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PRIMA FACIE CASE OF NEGLIGENCE

• Duty
• Duty vs. Right
• Due Care
• Reasonable-person test
• Nature of the test
• Factors in establishing the test
• Degrees of Negligence
• Malpractice
• Nature
• Examples

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PRIMA FACIE CASE OF NEGLIGENCE

• Special Doctrines that Show Negligence
• Res Ipsa Loquitur
• Definition
• Use
• Negligence Per Se
• Elements
• Use

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PRIMA FACIE CASE OF NEGLIGENCE

• Actual Cause cause/effect
• Proximate Cause
• Policy reason
• Role of immediacy or closeness of negligent act
  to injury
• Intervening cause

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DEFENSES TO NEGLIGENCE

• Plaintiffs Contribution
• Contributory Negligence, OR
• Comparative Fault
• Assumption of the Risk

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STRICT LIABILITY

• Theory of the Doctrine
• History
• Rationale
• Early Dimensions under Restatement (Second) Torts

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STRICT LIABILITY

• Modern Approaches Under Restatement (Third) Torts
• Manufacturing Defect
• Design Defect
• Warning
• Defenses
• Comparative Fault
• State of the Art

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CHAPTER 10 NEGLIGENCE AND STRICT LIABILITY