Workplace Bullying Many people might want to or prefer to think that bullying is something specific and endemic only to the young. However, bullying takes on many forms and it absolutely happens with adults as opposed to just with children and teena Continue Reading...
Causation: Irrespective of whether or not ABC Apartments satisfied its duty of reasonable care with respect to the safety of its tenants, the harm for which liability is claimed must relate directly to any failure to satisfy that standard. More pa 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...
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...
(Regan & Regan, 2002) All the health care workers are surely part of some form of administration or a unit. Contrastingly, this law will not be applied to private practices because in those cases, only the direct health care worker is considered Continue Reading...
National Do-Not-Call Registry and the CAN SPAM Act are both attempts to protect individuals from corporate marketing strategies. The National Do-Not-Call-Registry attempts to limit the ability of corporations to place unsolicited commercial calls to Continue Reading...
False Claims Act is a piece of legislation from the U.S. Congress that allows any individual with knowledge of a fraud being perfected against any agency of the U.S. Government to file a claim on behalf of the Government against the individual or bus Continue Reading...
Whistle-Blowing The question of the responsibility and/or ethical duty of an employee to blow the whistle on an employer have been the subject of much discussion. Some would argue that there is an ethical duty to respond and 'blow the whistle' when Continue Reading...
Health Care Situation: Medical Error Due to Doctors' Bad Handwriting Identify a health care news situation that affects a health care organization such as a hospital, clinic or insurance company. I have identified the following health care news sit Continue Reading...
The benefit of creating the term at this point is that lawmakers and prosecutors and defense lawyers will all be aware of the growth of the term as it moves through the judicial birth canal and is delivered in its full meaning, with all its parts in Continue Reading...
Criminal laws absolutely prohibit furnishing alcohol to minors, even formally requiring bartenders to check the identification of any patron who appears even slightly older than the legal age for alcohol consumption (Schmalleger 1997). Conceivably, Continue Reading...
Copyright Laws vs. Peer-to-Peer File Transfer This paper presents a detailed examination of copyright laws, with a comparison to peer-to-peer file transfer. The author will take the reader on an exploratory journey, in which the details and outcomes Continue Reading...
Tort Exam Barnaby Willows owns a small boutique petting zoo in downtown Sydney. This petting zoo harbors two of each kind of local species of animal. The zoo is open to the public seven days a week for 8 hours a day. The animals are kept in cages pu Continue Reading...
Faragher v. City of Boca Raton Argued March 25, 1998 Decided June 26, 1998 PARTIES: Beth Ann Faragher: petitioner; City of Boca Raton: respondent FACTS: Beth Ann Faragher worked part-time and during summers between 1990 and 1995 as a life-guar Continue Reading...
Tort Law The tort actions in this case would be the glass in the food that started the event in the first place. The other waiter caused a tort action when he spun into Anna's waiter causing him to be burned with the flaming dish. Anna's waiter woul Continue Reading...
Fault: An Alternative to the Current Tort-Based System in England and Wales The United Kingdom statistics regarding claims THE NATIONAL HEALTH SYSTEM OBSTACLES TO DUE PROCESS THE CASE FOR REFORM THE REGULATORY ENVIRONMENT THE RISING COST OF LI Continue Reading...
BURLINGTON INDUSTRIES, INC. V. ELLERTH Supreme Court of the United States, 1998 524 U.S. 742 Vicarious liability of employer in a sexual harassment case Sexual harassment, hostile work environment, vicarious liability, Title VII, affirmative def Continue Reading...
This essay provides a brief overview of several of the key factors in conflict of laws, including the areas where choice of law is likely to be at issue. Domicile Domicile is one of the key factors in choice of law. Domicile is not the same as loc Continue Reading...
Company Policy Draft a company policy on use of the internet by employees. Draft it in the form of a memo to employees. Take into consideration the following issues: Is it realistic to believe that all personal use of the internet at work can be p Continue Reading...
Employee Privacy Torts Issues relating to employee privacy have been at the forefront of businesses for many years. This has been fuelled by the dynamic workplace which changes constantly and also by employees and employers being more litigation-con Continue Reading...
This being the case, the liability insurance company will pass the suit to their attorney, who will then be responsible for filling a written answer. The next phase in the litigation process will be a series of discovery, where each side will be gi Continue Reading...
Occupational Health Law Analysis Occupational safety would seem to be simple to many but it is actually a quite complex subject and takes on many forms and levels of responsibility. Indeed, both the employees and employer alike have their burdens to Continue Reading...
Amanda Todd Story Cyber bullying is a relatively new concern that our society has to deal with. The Amanda Todd story fully illustrates the potential consequences of what cyber-bullying can have on young adults. Although the Amanda Todd story is ext Continue Reading...
Wheels for Hire: Who Should Prevail? According to the definition provided by Black's Law Dictionary (1990), the doctrine of respondeat superior means literally "let the master answer." Pursuant to the respondeat superior doctrine, "a master is respo Continue Reading...
Racial Discrimination and the Death Penalty The United States Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Statistics reported that at the end of the year 2000 that there was 1,381,892 total number of prisoners under the jurisdiction of federal or state Continue Reading...
Certainly, utilizing those agencies now that there has been a crime at the premises is warranted. However, it may not have been negligent for DWI to fail to contact law enforcement when it first began receiving threats. Large corporations such as DW Continue Reading...
Sexual harassment can be legally defined as "verbal or physical behavior of a sexual nature, aimed at a particular person or group of people, especially in the workplace or in academic or other institutional settings, that is actionable, as in tort o Continue Reading...
Generally, this is the case when a person's job puts them at increased risk for violence, such as when that person is a cashier. Casino employees already work in an environment that increases the potential for violence; casinos generally feature a l Continue Reading...
Law Sexual Harassment Teddy's Supplies' CEO Dear Sir, In pursuing the facts of the case I think Teddy's is having a written sexual harassment policy and a method for employees to report sexual harassment -- either to the supervisor or in secret b Continue Reading...
Copyright Computer Software Piracy and Copyright Infringement This work completes my portion of the Blue Team's group project where we were each assigned a set of cases to review and summarize. This report is the summary for case number 3 called, U Continue Reading...
Norton v. Argonaut Insurance Company, there was a staffing shortage on a pediatric ward of Baton Rouge General Hospital. An administrative nurse was filling in for the regular pediatric nurse, and carried out the physician's order which read, "Give 3 Continue Reading...
Yost directly aware of the fact that counting different locations on the same day was not the best idea if accuracy was demanded. However, Yost shot down the idea of doing all locations on the same day and even went to so far as to sign off on the f Continue Reading...
