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Torts and compensation : personal accountability and social responsibility for injury / Dan B. Dobbs, Regents Professor and Rosenstiel Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus, James E. Rogers College of Law, The University of Arizona; Paul T. Hayden, Thomas V. Girardi Professor of Consumer Protection Law, Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, Loyola Marymount University; Ellen M. Bublick, Dan B. Dobbs Professor of Law, James E. Rogers College of Law, The University of Arizona.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: American casebook seriesPublication details: USA: West Academic Publishing, 2017Edition: Concise edition, Eighth editionDescription: xxxix, 719 pages ; 26 cm; xx, 1038 pages ; 28 cmISBN:
  • 9781634608183 (hbk)
  • 9781683289715 (pbk. : teacher's manual)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • KF1250 .D6 2017
Contents:
Tort law : aims, approaches, and processes -- Reading tort cases and understanding trial procedure -- Intentional torts to person or property -- Defenses to intentional torts : privileges -- Prima facie case for negligence and the element of duty -- Breach of duty -- Actual harm and factual cause -- Scope of liability (Proximate Cause) -- Fault of the Plaintiff -- Assumption of the risk -- Defenses not on the merits -- Carriers, host-drivers and landowners -- Duties of health-care providers -- Family members and charities -- Governmental entities, officers and employees -- Nonfeasance -- Contract and duty -- The duty to protect from third persons -- Emotional harm -- Prenatal harms -- Wrongful Death and Survival Actions -- Vicarious liability -- Common law strict liability -- Tort liability for defective products -- Apportionment and Settlement -- Damages -- Evaluating tort law -- Being aware of compensation options -- Being aware of dignitary and economic torts.
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Tort law : aims, approaches, and processes -- Reading tort cases and understanding trial procedure -- Intentional torts to person or property -- Defenses to intentional torts : privileges -- Prima facie case for negligence and the element of duty -- Breach of duty -- Actual harm and factual cause -- Scope of liability (Proximate Cause) -- Fault of the Plaintiff -- Assumption of the risk -- Defenses not on the merits -- Carriers, host-drivers and landowners -- Duties of health-care providers -- Family members and charities -- Governmental entities, officers and employees -- Nonfeasance -- Contract and duty -- The duty to protect from third persons -- Emotional harm -- Prenatal harms -- Wrongful Death and Survival Actions -- Vicarious liability -- Common law strict liability -- Tort liability for defective products -- Apportionment and Settlement -- Damages -- Evaluating tort law -- Being aware of compensation options -- Being aware of dignitary and economic torts.

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