regulated offshore oil drilling activities adopt the plan for drilling in the Gulf of Mexico produced by petroleum giant BP to assure the agency that the environmental damage from the spill anywhere would be "minimal or nonexistent". Predict the worst case spill 1500-4600 barrels. MMS approved BP’s plan to set a cement plug to the temporary closure of wells with only a 90-minute telephone conversation between the MMS and BP officials. BP declares MMS application ’categories excluded "from environmental
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Business Law Unit 2: Negligence and Duty of Care Kaplan University 7/13/13 Negligence and Duty of Care Gloria Rodriguez Business Law August 12‚ 2013 Negligence and Duty of Care Scenario: As pedestrians exited at the close of an arts and crafts show‚ Jason Davis‚ an employee of the show’s producer‚ stood near the exit. Suddenly and without warning‚ Davis turned around and collided with Yvonne Esposito‚ an 80-year-old woman. Esposito
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Injury Due to Labor and Delivery Negligence Some things in this world are simple and can be done easily by a single person. But‚ many tasks require a team work and unity. One amongst them is the task of bringing a child into this world. The birth of a baby should be the happiest moment in a parent’s life‚ but events that occur during labor or in the delivery room can quickly turn happiness to sorrow. It becomes the keen responsibility of doctors‚ nurses‚ and other team members involved in bringing
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Introduction This case study will examine case number 2‚ Walter’s Ice-cream shop‚ and present all aspects within the PIRAC framework. For purposes of succinctness‚ the original statement of case facts will not be repeated here‚ however a summary list of the factual events is presented in chronological order as follows : * Builder leaves paint pot on shop floor after completing paint work. * Walter notices the paint pot and decides to leave it with intention to move later. * Walter opens
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resistance to any deliberate tort. In Australia‚ contributory carelessness is accessible when the offended party’s own particular carelessness added to its own injuries.[6] Also allude to Pennington v Norris for second test.[7] Culture "Contributory Negligence"[8] was the title of an around 1982 sonnet by Attila the Stockbroker‚ an execution writer in the UK. The lyric scrutinized a court choice where an attacker got away overwhelming discipline and was requested to pay just a fine on the ground that
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Tort Actions The most prevalent tort in scenario 2 is negligence. The first act of negligence would be the glass that was found in Anna’s food that caused her injury. The second negligent act was the waiter’s decision to carry a flaming dish through the restaurant without announcing his presence. The restaurant owner’s negligent decision to not install an emergency exit other than a revolving door entrance caused an elderly woman to be trampled and caused several other patrons to suffer from
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International Business - Foreign Trade M/S Taneja Exports‚ Mumbai Introduction Mr. Gurmeet Taneja and Mr. Rahul Khatri are partners of M/S Taneja exports‚ Mumbai. Both of them qualified from IIFT‚ New Delhi in the year 2002. They declined lucrative corporate job offers‚ since they have decided to plunge into the world of international business. M/S Taneja Exports is registered as a partnership firm‚ with Mr. Gurmeet Taneja and Mr.Rahul Khatri sharing the profits in the ratio of
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Three Executives of a well-known multi-national company decided to form a new company‚ named New Star Company Limited in 1974. These three executives were becoming close to their retirement age. Pifco-Zen Chen Company Limited‚ the company that they worked for had been in business for the last 80 years. It was their previous employers policy to retire the executives with a golden hand-shake worth approximately US120‚000 each. The three executives occupied the following position with Pifco-Zen Chen
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Medical providers have one of the most‚ if not the most difficult job in my opinion. These individuals study for many years to gain an idea of what they will face in the real world and whey they start practicing‚ they see that every case is individual. People put their confidence and trust in their doctor‚ they believe they are safe in their hands and that should be a very serious task for any physician. There are minimum standards of care that should be followed at all times and if they are not
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Criminal Law – 6 August Reasonableness‚ continued Options for SA law approach to negligence: 1) Purely subjective assessment of negligence supported by JC De Wet; 2) Cultural defences – but these are based on labelling people and assuming all people with the label are the same; 3) Objective test of reasonableness with subjective factors; 4) Incorporating subjective factors into the capacity. Any argument on the basis of capacity have to contend with the Eadie judgment‚ need to see
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