RMIN 4000 UGA EDMUNDS ACTUAL TEST
PAPER QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS COMPLETE SOLUTION GUIDE
●● Georgia judicial hellhole
Answer: Continue rise in nuclear verdicts, increasing role of third-party
litigation financing, and premise liability. trial lawyers and jackpot
verdict paydays. advertising focus on truckers
●● legal wrong
Answer: a violation of a person's legal rights, or a failure to perform a
legal duty owed to a certain person, to a business org., or to a society as
a whole
●● types of legal wrongs
Answer: crime, breach of contract, and tort
●● tort
Answer: Legal wrong for which the court allows a remedy in the form of
monetary damages
●● plaintiff
Answer: the person who is injured
,●● Tortfeasor
Answer: the alleged wrongdoer
●● categories of tort
Answer: intentional, strict liability, and negligence
●● intentional torts
Answer: Intentional act or omission resulting in harm or injury to
another person or damage to their property
●● examples of intentional tort
Answer: libel, slander, invasion of privacy, assault, patent infringements
●● strict liability
Answer: Liability imposed regardless of negligence or fault (damage
from animals, hazardous activities)
●● negligence tort
Answer: Failure to exercise the standard of care required by law to
protect others from an unreasonable risk of harm
●● standard of care
, Answer: not the same for each wrongful act; based on the care required
by a reasonably prudent person
●● elements of negligence
Answer: existence of a legal duty owed, breach of legal duty, damage or
injury, and proximate cause between act and damage
●● compensatory damages
Answer: compensate the injured party for the harm suffered (special and
general)
●● special damages
Answer: lost work earnings, medical bills, property repair costs
●● general damages
Answer: Loss of a companion, disfigurement, pain and suffering
●● punitive damages
Answer: Punish the wrongdoer and to deter others from doing similar
acts
●● contributory negligence
PAPER QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS COMPLETE SOLUTION GUIDE
●● Georgia judicial hellhole
Answer: Continue rise in nuclear verdicts, increasing role of third-party
litigation financing, and premise liability. trial lawyers and jackpot
verdict paydays. advertising focus on truckers
●● legal wrong
Answer: a violation of a person's legal rights, or a failure to perform a
legal duty owed to a certain person, to a business org., or to a society as
a whole
●● types of legal wrongs
Answer: crime, breach of contract, and tort
●● tort
Answer: Legal wrong for which the court allows a remedy in the form of
monetary damages
●● plaintiff
Answer: the person who is injured
,●● Tortfeasor
Answer: the alleged wrongdoer
●● categories of tort
Answer: intentional, strict liability, and negligence
●● intentional torts
Answer: Intentional act or omission resulting in harm or injury to
another person or damage to their property
●● examples of intentional tort
Answer: libel, slander, invasion of privacy, assault, patent infringements
●● strict liability
Answer: Liability imposed regardless of negligence or fault (damage
from animals, hazardous activities)
●● negligence tort
Answer: Failure to exercise the standard of care required by law to
protect others from an unreasonable risk of harm
●● standard of care
, Answer: not the same for each wrongful act; based on the care required
by a reasonably prudent person
●● elements of negligence
Answer: existence of a legal duty owed, breach of legal duty, damage or
injury, and proximate cause between act and damage
●● compensatory damages
Answer: compensate the injured party for the harm suffered (special and
general)
●● special damages
Answer: lost work earnings, medical bills, property repair costs
●● general damages
Answer: Loss of a companion, disfigurement, pain and suffering
●● punitive damages
Answer: Punish the wrongdoer and to deter others from doing similar
acts
●● contributory negligence
