Torts : Personal Injury Litigation
ISBN: 9781401879624 | 1401879624
Edition: 5thFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Pub. Date: 8/26/2010
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Torts : Personal Injury Litigation, 5th Edition, is a comprehensive guide to the law of torts. This fifth edition extends the discussion of paralegal roles within tort litigation and examines the ethics of attorney solicitation.
A comprehensive checklist, which includes definitions, defenses, relationships, paralegal roles and research references, is provided for each tort presented. This checklist provides readers with an overview of information and serves as an on-the-job refresher.
Over forty pertinent case studies are included, allowing readers to examine important court opinions. Among the controversial issues discussed in these court opinions are AIDS, the Oklahoma bombing, computer torts, assistance to the homeless, billion dollar verdicts and settlements, biomedical research and the alleged tort committed by President Clinton that became part of his historic impeachment and Senate trial.
| Introduction to Tort Law and Practice | |
| Legal Analysis in Tort Law | |
| Fact Gathering in Tort Litigation | |
| Foreseeability in Tort Law | |
| Battery | |
| Assault | |
| False Imprisonment and False Arrest | |
| Misuse of Legal Process | |
| Infliction of Emotional Distress | |
| Conversion and Trespass to Chattels | |
| Stri... MORE | |
| Negligence: A Summary | |
| Negligence: Element I: Duty | |
| Negligence: Element II: Breach of Duty (Unreasonableness) | |
| Negligence: Element III: Proximate Cause | |
| Negligence: Element IV: Damages | |
| Negligence: Defenses | |
| Medical Malpractice and Legal Malpractice | |
| Products Liability | |
| Mass Tort Litigation | |
| Survival and Wrongful Death | |
| Torts Against and within the Family | |
| Torts Connected with Land | |
| Defamation | |
| Invasion of Privacy | |
| Misrepresentation, Tortious Interference, and Other Torts | |
| Additional Tort Defenses | |
| Workers' Compensation | |
| Settlement | |
| Resources on Tort Law | |
| Sample Accident Report Filed with Police | |
| Automobile Insurance | |
| Legal Nurse | |
| "Do You Seldomly Swear..." | |
| Glossary | |
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