The preliminary issue in the question is fast food restaurant is vicariously liable for the Cathy’s negligence. Since the concerns about the law of tort‚ the following analysis will focus on the possible tortuous liability instead of the potential breach of the contractual obligation and the criminal acts. In principle of vicarious liability‚ to make an employer liable for a wrong committed by an employee‚ the plaintiff must establish that: 1. defendant is an employee ( as opposed to an independent
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To: Mr. McCraw From: Nicole Ryan RE: “Potential Negligence Claim Against Pharmacist” Facts: The patient/client has been diagnosed with HIV+ and sought medical attention. The physician conducted an examination designed to identify the appropriate specific medication for the patient. The appropriate prescription was emailed to the pharmacy‚ Rite Aid. The pharmacy received and labeled the medication but mistakenly put the wrong medication in the bottle. Therefore the bottle was labeled correctly
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person is killed due to the misconduct or negligence of another person. It is often referred to as wrongful death. The family members of the deceased person may opt to file a wrongful death claim. For example‚ if a parent lost a child in a car accident‚ then he or she may be able to file a lawsuit against the responsible party. There are several elements that must be present in a wrongful death case. Those elements include death of a person‚ negligence and the surviving members of the family must
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advice. | Issues * Is Fanny able to sue Walter for negligence? If so‚ is Walter able to share some of the blame for negligence with the builder‚ for leaving the paint in the first place‚ or with Niral for causing the accident by spilling the paint? * Is Fanny able to sue the builder directly for negligence? * Is Fanny able to sue Niral directly for negligence? In relation to this point‚ is William in some way liable for negligence due to his position of care of his child Niral? In other
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Torts Defenses to Negligence‚ Pg. 106‚ 4.7 In the case of Peterson v. Donahue‚ Neal Peterson sued David Donahue for negligence after a ski collision that occurred while both parties were on the ski slopes. Eleven year old Peterson was coming down the slopes very fast when he collided with forty three year old‚ advanced skier‚ Donahue who was skating across the slope toward the parking lot. Donahue saw Peterson seconds before the impact which knocked him out of his skis ten to twelve feet down
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fines to losing their license due to malpractice or medical negligence. A tort law as defined in medicaldictionary.com is an act deemed unlawful and capable of triggering a civil action. In my opinion‚ there will always be accidents because no one is perfect‚ but these should be minimal. In having a tort law in place‚ there is a higher recognition of the liabilities a provider can face if found guilty of malpractice or medical negligence which makes providers more aware of their responsibilities
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Aspects of Contract and Negligence for Business In today’s business perspective‚ when we deal with varieties of sales and buying‚ we are simply using different types of law about business which are formally known as business law. The importance of business law in business world is very much significant. Business operates in an increasingly global environment where the laws of different government and judicial system might conflict. That’s why‚ it is very much essential to know about the legal law
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The scope of this analysis is to get the deep understanding of the strict liability exception i.e. Act of God v. Negligence. And to even analyse the other related concepts. It is difficult to attribute the cause of an accident as an Act of God‚ Negligence on the part of the involved party or maybe as a combination of both. Act of God are purely those activities which are not in control of normal human beings such as earthquake‚ floods
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In this case‚ John has a cause of action against TAFE for his injury from the accident‚ he had rights to claim for his cost from TAFE that he did not fix the engine on the wrong way. There are five steps about the law of negligence‚ first is duty of care‚ it is a legal duty owed by one person to another‚ in this case‚ TAFE owed a duty of care to John. Because based on foreseeable test‚ John is a student who graduated form the TAFE‚ he also proved that the instructor of TAFE gives him a wrong instructions
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The duty of care has been breached Law 02 the second sttage of negligence You have not started this quiz yet. You have 17 questions to answer. ------------------------------------------------- Top of Form 1. Breah of duty is the second stage of negligence. We can prove if there was a breach of duty by using the ’............’ test * reasonable person * reasonable man * degree of risk * standard of care 2. In this test there is an ’.........................
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