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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Page 386
... standard of care is the practice of the relevant medical community . Does the medical standard rule reject the rule about custom in T.J. Hooper ? 7. Rejecting reasonable care . Medical standards will often reflect reasonable care ...
... standard of care is the practice of the relevant medical community . Does the medical standard rule reject the rule about custom in T.J. Hooper ? 7. Rejecting reasonable care . Medical standards will often reflect reasonable care ...
Page 389
... standard and problems of testimony . Adop- tion of a local standard means that only a local physician , or one who knows what the local standard is , can testify against the defendant - doctor . What problems does this raise for the ...
... standard and problems of testimony . Adop- tion of a local standard means that only a local physician , or one who knows what the local standard is , can testify against the defendant - doctor . What problems does this raise for the ...
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... standard of care : avoiding reckless conduct , 315 , 317 , 318-319 SPOUSAL ABUSE See Family Members SPRING GUN RULE defense of property and , 86 STALKING , STATUTES assault and , 65 STANDARD OF CARE See also Custom ; Duty ; Landowners ...
... standard of care : avoiding reckless conduct , 315 , 317 , 318-319 SPOUSAL ABUSE See Family Members SPRING GUN RULE defense of property and , 86 STALKING , STATUTES assault and , 65 STANDARD OF CARE See also Custom ; Duty ; Landowners ...
Contents
PREFACE | xxxv |
Aims Approaches and Processes | 2 |
b Applying Some Approaches | 9 |
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