RMIN 4000 UGA Edmunds Exam 4 Questions and Answers (Graded A)

Philidelphia judicial hellhole - ANSWER-Reputation for excessive verdicts and its "open door" policy to out of state 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)