Exam 6: Torts and Strict Liability

Which of the following best describes the tort of battery?

Which of the following is true about the duty of care?

Statutes often establish duties owed by one person to another.

If a woman is informed of her husband being run over by a bus the previous night,she can recover damages for negligent infliction of emotional distress.

A seller of a defective product cannot be held strictly liable if it can be proved that he or she took all possible care in the preparation and sale of the product.

A failure to exercise care or to act as a reasonable person would act is a breach of the ________.

Comparative negligence is a doctrine that says a plaintiff who is partially at fault for his or her own injury cannot recover against the negligent defendant.

Unauthorized and harmful or offensive physical contact with another person is called ________.

________ is the liability of a professional who breaches his or her duty of ordinary care.

A doctor driving on the wrong side of the road crashes into an eight-year-old boy riding a bicycle.Fearing the consequences,the doctor flees without reporting the accident or giving first-aid to the boy.The doctor is liable for professional malpractice.

Actual physical contact is not necessary for a tort to be considered an assault.

What is meant by "causation in fact"?

If a newspaper review calls a commercially successful actor talentless,it is liable for defamation of character.

Bertha,a surgeon,performed a kidney transplant on one of her patients.The surgery was not successful and the patient did not survive.Which of the following statements is true in this case?

In a lawsuit for malicious prosecution,the original defendant sues the original plaintiff.

Sending an objectionable telegram to a third party and signing another's name constitutes the tort of ________.

Which of the following statements is true about strict liability?

________ is a doctrine that says a person is liable for harm that is the foreseeable consequence of his or her actions.

According to the doctrine of strict liability,which of the following parties is strictly liable for injuries caused by a defective product?

Martha is walking along a street with her son when he is hit by a passing car just as he steps off the pavement.He dies in his mother's arms,leaving her traumatized.The court hearing the case rules that Martha's son was not responsible for the accident.Martha can sue the person who killed her son to recover damages for ________.