True Story of Erin Brockovich Anderson v. PG&E [pic] Michael Kelly Business Law Professor Chowdry Erin Brockovich is the story of a woman who helped 650 people in Hinkley California get justice for the actions of Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E.) The case was titled Anderson v. PG&E and was actually settled outside of court. It was settled in the Superior Court for the County of San Bernardino‚ Barstow Division. The parties agreed on a settlement of
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reasonable person would not have done and caused harm to a patient. There are two Latin terms that can be used to describe aspects of negligence. These are known as doctrines. Res ipsa loquitur‚ or “the thing speaks for itself”‚ is the term used in cases that involve situations when a nick is made in the bladder while a surgeon is performing a hysterectomy. The negligence is obvious. The other doctrine‚ respondent superior‚ “let the master answer‚ “expresses that physicians are responsible for their
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causing an audit report to include any matter that is “misleading‚ false or deceptive in a material way”. To be proved in cases of civil liability Mr Justice Woolf in the case Lloyd Cheyham v Littlejohn (1985) established the 4 issues of duty of care‚ negligence‚ causation and quantum. The duty of care issue asks whether the defendants owe the plaintiffs a duty of care. The law is built on a series of important cases. The high profile case Caparo Industries plc v Dickman & Others (House of Lords 1990)
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Caption Hazelwood being intoxicated and then leaving the bridge enabling him not to make the call to turn the ship he committed a negligent tort. Due to his negligence the ship did not turn in time and spilled thousands of barrels of oil in the William Prince Sound in Alaska. He did not intentionally mean for the ship to spill the oil‚ but his negligence lead to that outcome. Exxon was found in fault of Captain Hazelwood’s torts‚ this meant they had to pay punitive damages to those affected by the oil spill
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Transportation Code‚ § 22-412.3 - US‚ it can be seen that seat belts can not be an evidence of the victim negligence‚ which can reduce the liability of the insurance company or the party causing the damage (General Assembly of Maryland‚ 2017). For instance‚ the case of Froom v Butcher [1976] 1 QB 286 (Witting‚ 2015). The plaintiff was injured in a car accident due to the defendant’s negligence. However‚ the plaintiff was later found out that he did not wearing seat belts. That leads to a controversy
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willfully inflicted. Negligence was distingue as a different tort. The basic idea is today is that a breach of duty constitutes a tort. In American there are courts that treat unjustified and willful as tortious‚ but other courts have stated that the act must be tortios by law. Torts that hurts someone feelings or reputation are considered to be personal torts. Torts that involve personal property‚ real are property torts. There are many different classes of property torts such as negligence and automobile
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omissions as wrongs which give rise to civil liability. Tort of Negligence It arises when damage is caused to a person or his property by a failure to take such reasonably cares as the law requires in the circumstances of the case. The damage could be caused by a negligent act or omission; meaning that the defendant did something or the defendant failed to do what he should have. Elements of negligence To succeed in an action for negligence‚ the plaintiff must prove ALL the followings: The defendant
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Barker In this article‚ Andrew Barker‚ from the Faculty of Law at the University of Otago‚ considers two recent decisions on the duty of care in negligence: Sullivan v Moody‚ from the High Court of Australia‚ and Cooper v Hobart‚ from the Supreme Court of Canada. In these decisions‚ the two courts have re-evaluated their approach to the duty of care in negligence‚ and suggested new approaches to this problem in an attempt to remove some of the uncertainty their previous decisions have created. After reviewing
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her daughter’s leukemia. The five-year timeframe fit Kelly’s situation and she had a solid case against Alumina Inc. Alumina Inc. was being charged with an unintentional tort‚ known as negligence. To be successful in a negligence lawsuit‚ the plaintiff must prove that injury occurred as a direct result of negligence (Cheeseman‚ 2012). If the defendant’s act caused the plaintiff injury‚ the lawsuit could be damaging. Another possible tort violation would be negligent infliction of emotional distress
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"if harm to the claimant would not have occurred ’but for’ the defendants negligence then that negligence is a cause of the harm... If the loss would have incurred in any event‚ the defendant’s conduct is not a cause." When applying the ’but for’ test to the Barnett case it is found that as the claimants husband would have died from the arsenic poisoning regardless of the doctor not admitting the patient‚ the doctors negligence was thus not the cause of the death. Another case which applied the ’but
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