Torts and Compensation: Personal Accountability and Social Responsibility for InjuryUpdated to incorporate many recently decided cases and current issues, this easy-to-use doctrinal favorite emphasizes both personal injury torts, including civil rights torts, and non-tort systems of compensation, including social security and workers' compensation. The casebook contains chapters on products liability, current medical malpractice (including a section on nursing home liability), and economic and dignitary torts, such as defamation, privacy, and fraud. Using cases and notes that ask for thoughtful analysis and synthesis, the book presents basic concepts such as duty, negligence, cause, scope of risk, and comparative responsibility; it also investigates current issues, including tort reform and apportionment of responsibility. |
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... Evidence and Offers of Evidence Evidence that is not relevant to help prove any element involved in the case should be excluded by the judge , especially if the evidence is likely to mislead the jury or to be " prejudicial . " However ...
... Evidence and Offers of Evidence Evidence that is not relevant to help prove any element involved in the case should be excluded by the judge , especially if the evidence is likely to mislead the jury or to be " prejudicial . " However ...
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... evidence of what ought to be done . And so the law permits the methods , practices or rules experienced men generally accept and follow to be shown as an aid to the jury in comparing the conduct of the alleged tortfeasor with the ...
... evidence of what ought to be done . And so the law permits the methods , practices or rules experienced men generally accept and follow to be shown as an aid to the jury in comparing the conduct of the alleged tortfeasor with the ...
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... evidence of negligence . The plaintiff's attorney then sought review in a higher court by obtaining a " rule nisi to enter the verdict for the plaintiff .... " What follows includes a portion of the argument by Charles Russell for the ...
... evidence of negligence . The plaintiff's attorney then sought review in a higher court by obtaining a " rule nisi to enter the verdict for the plaintiff .... " What follows includes a portion of the argument by Charles Russell for the ...
Contents
PREFACE | xxxv |
Aims Approaches and Processes | 2 |
b Applying Some Approaches | 9 |
Copyright | |
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