Negligent Liability & IT Outsourcing Negligent Entrustment Liability Negligent entrustment is where personally identifiable information is outsourced to an insecure back-office operation (Rustad, 2007). Organizations have an affirmative duty to Continue Reading...
Negligent Tort In basic terms, a tort can be defined as a civil wrong. In this case, it is the victim of wrongful conduct who brings action against the alleged wrongdoer. The alleged wrongdoer in tort law is referred to as the defendant while the cl Continue Reading...
A person may be able to file action against more than one defendant by establishing that the behaviors of each were proximate causes of their damage, even if the defendants' negligent behavior was dissimilar (Larson, 2003). According to the law, a Continue Reading...
It is also a cloudy issue as to whether a company can terminate employment if an individual commits and is convicted of a crime while they are in the employment of the company. If such a crime were a low level crime, that could be thought of as a "g Continue Reading...
Negligent Torts Proximate Causation, Duty of Care and "But for" According to Bjorklun (1999), the largest amount of litigation in the area of personal injury consists of unintentional torts. The definition provided by Black's Law Dictionary indica Continue Reading...
Negligent Tort Under the law the general public is entitled to a certain amount of protection. This is because everyone is expected to provide safeguards for the people they are dealing with. When there is an accident, the odds are high of a partic Continue Reading...
if, however, the plaintiff is able to prove that the defendant hotel failed to follow its own procedures in regard to the elevators and guests' rooms to the point that security was compromised then the plaintiff may be able to prove an actionable br Continue Reading...
liability that a nurse encounters on the job. It provides a discussion about the legal risks involved in various health care settings for nurses. There were eight sources used to complete this paper. For years, there have been reports of a nationwi Continue Reading...
companies be held liable? The issue of whether firms should be held responsible for losses sustained for external attacks on their AIS (accounting information systems) has recently come into sharp focus. On one hand, if a firm has put in place suff Continue Reading...
Liability On December 3, 1984; the lives of residents of Bhopal, India were changed dramatically. This occurred with the release of 40 tons of Methyl Isocyanate Gas (MIC) leaked from the Union Carbide plant. The result is that more than 3,800 people Continue Reading...
Another, related doctrine to vicarious liability is that of negligent hiring, in which an employer does not take reasonable precautions to do appropriate background checks of the employee. If a hospital hires a nurse without the necessary qualifica Continue Reading...
Vicarious Liability Case This present study is a vicarious liability case assignment and it is divided into two primary sections. The first section aims at distinguishing between corporate criminal liability and tort law vicarious liability resultin Continue Reading...
Civil Liability Associated With Policing Civil liability and policing The law enforcement agencies and their officers are widely trusted for upholding the law and implementing the requirements of the law as well as protecting the innocent citizens Continue Reading...
Tattoo Shoppe Case -- Liability for Wrong Tattoo Questions Presented Is Tattoo Shoppe liable for the wrong tattoo performed by its owner on Lydia's lower back? If yes, how much money is the tattoo parlor liable for and how can such liability be pre Continue Reading...
Hospital Liability The parties involved in the case are Charles Cullen, the primary guilty party, the families of the victims who were murdered by Cullen's actions, and the hospitals that employed Cullen, including the Somerset Medical Center. Other Continue Reading...
TWS Liability Ms. Jones slipping on a banana peel on her way into the Wonderful Supermarket is unfortunate. While there are factors that make TWS look negligent, this case is far from simple in that Ms. Jones at least partially contributed to her ow Continue Reading...
This can be seen with the consistent accidents and violations that have occurred at different mines that the company owns, the most notable being the Acroma Alma Mine. In this particular case, the company was cited and charged with violating federal Continue Reading...
As in the case of explosive manufacturing and housing wild animals, running a commercial gas station is a commercial activity that is inherently dangerous no matter what precautions the operator takes to prevent accidents that could cause harm to ot Continue Reading...
Vicarious liability imposes liability on one person for an illegal or tortious act committed by another, such as the negligent conduct of the dockyard worker under BUG's employ. Tort Liability Basics: Strict, Vicarious, and Joint Liability," 1999) Continue Reading...
259). These authors assert that crowd management and crowd control constitute two additional vital issues that athletic facility management needs to address when hosting events at any stadium or venue. Event managers also need to understand the typ Continue Reading...
Liability of a Negligence Judy Taylor From: Smith & Associates LLP Seeking Legal Advice whether the school has a Potential Liability for a Negligence DEFINING THE ISSUE Under N.Y.S.3d 307, does Montauk High School has potential liability fo Continue Reading...
Sanders's injury was more as a result of the "hard falls" of softball, rather than any sort of "rough treatment" that occurred as a result of improper supervision. The "rough treatment" category of head-butting football players can easily be disting Continue Reading...
Non-Profit and for-Profit Ethical and Liability Issues This paper examines the ethical and liability issues that non-profit corporations and for-profit businesses face, and compares them. Non-Profit Corporations and For-Profit Business: A Compariso Continue Reading...
... If gun manufacturers are responsible for violence, why not the makers of the steel used in the guns?" (Levy, 2004, p. 80) The application of the principles of assumption of risk and product liability to incidents that are ever more removed from Continue Reading...
Strict Liability & Securities Law Congress defined security laws to include investment contracts, but "investment contract" is not itself defined in law (Condomimiums as Investment Contracts under the Security Laws, 2011). An Eleventh Circuit co Continue Reading...
Onyshko v. NCAA Case briefing: Onyshko v. NCAA pending in the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania. Recently, the heightened publicity in regards to the dangers of college sports, specifically football, has raised Continue Reading...
The tort for companionship and society is, by law, only applicable to persons and not to animals, regardless of their regard as companion animals or not. As for the trespass tort, it was found that insufficient evidence was available to prove wrong Continue Reading...
The Common Law Theory of Negligence Negligence is defined as the failure to exercise the appropriate care that is expected to be exercised under the specified circumstances. In law, negligence is the breach of a legal duty to take care that results i Continue Reading...
State v. Burrell 1. In the State of New Hampshire, Marc Burrell was convicted in a jury trial on the count of manslaughter. State v. Burrell refers to Burrell’s appeal of the original conviction. The grounds of Burrell’s appeal were that Continue Reading...
LIABILITY Liable Directions? As company ombudsman, your task is to investigate complaints of wrongdoing on the part of corporate directors and officers, decide whether there is a violation of the law, and deal with the wrongdoers accordingly. Jane, Continue Reading...
Davis v. The Board of County Commissioners of Dona Ana County: Mariah C. Davis filed a lawsuit against Dona Ana County for injuries he suffered while a patient at Mesilla Valley Hospital. In the lawsuit, Davis accused Joe Herrera, an employee at the Continue Reading...
Ayn Rand, "Antitrust: The Rule Unreason" alleged purpose Antitrust laws protect competition; purpose-based socialistic fallacy a free, unregulated market inevitably lead establishment coercive monopolies. Remarks on Causation and Liability This re Continue Reading...
Edwards v. Pepsico Company and Product Safety Issue In the case of Edwards v. Pepsico, 268 Fed. Appx. 756, 2008 U.S. App, Mr. Edwards had three fingers cut off of his dominant hand while working on a bulk bag unloading unit (BBU) at his place of em Continue Reading...
Given the context and the fact that being a convicted criminal and a sex offender could conceivably make the risk of any type of abuse (whether or not of a sexual nature) foreseeable, that defense is unlikely to succeed. However, generally, the know Continue Reading...
Non Linear Pro-is a company that sells editing equipment. Recently, the company was involved in a transaction that involved the lease of equipment to Quick Text Video on a trial basis. Before the purchase, the sales representative for NonLinear Pro a Continue Reading...
arises due to the fact of how the primary perpetrator obtained the use of the motor vehicle involved throughout the fact pattern is any possible liability imposed upon the young man's parents. The young man involved took the car apparently without t Continue Reading...
JP Morgan Chase Role of administrative agencies The securities and the banking system of a country are known to be one of the strongest and the most important foundations of an economy. To ensure that these systems do not move into negative or loss Continue Reading...
Dangerfield and Associate Entities Upon examining this case, it's clear that the claims made by Hartman are completely legitimate. The claims made by Mitchell are somewhat legitimate. This paper will first examine the basis of the lawsuit waged by H Continue Reading...
