jeopardy torts
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Jeopardy- Torts
Donna M. Kesot, CPCU10-13-11
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Negligence Doctrines Misc.Parties
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C1 100 Question
Tort
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What is a wrongful act or an omission, other than a crime or a breach of contract, that invades a legally protected right.
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C1 200 Question
An obligation imposed by law for the preservation of the legally protected rights of others.
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What is a legal duty?
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C1 300 Question
Negligence
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What is the failure to exercise the degree of care that a reasonable person in a similar situation would exercise to avoid harming others?
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C1 400 Question
What is the reasonable person test?
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A standard for the degree of care exercised in a situation that is measured by what a reasonably cautious person would or would not do under similar circumstances.
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C2 100 Question
Plaintiff
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Who is the person or entity who files a lawsuit and is named as a party?
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C2 200 Question
Tortfeasor
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Who is a person or organization that has committed a tort?
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C2 300 Question
The party in a lawsuit against whom a complaint is filed.
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What is a defendant?
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C2 400 Question
Bailee
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What is the party temporarily possessing the personal property in a bailment?
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C3 100 Question
An act that is considered inherently negligent because of a violation of a law or ordinance.
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What is negligence per se?
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C3 200 Question
The control of only one person or entity; in tort law the control by the defendant alone of an instrument that caused harm.
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What is exclusive control?
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C3 300 Question
A legal doctrine that provides that, in some circumstances, negligence is inferred simply by an accident occurring.
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What is res ipsa loquitur?
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C3 400 Question
The failure to conform to the standard of care required in the situation.
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What is breach of duty?
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C4 100 Question
Proximate cause
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What is a cause that, in a natural and continuous sequence unbroken by any new and independent cause, produces an event and without which the event would not have happened?
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C4 200 Question
Intervening act
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What is an act, independent of an original act and not readily foreseeable, that breaks the chain of causation and sets a new chain of events in motion that cause harm?
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C4 300 Question
Foreseeability rule
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What is a rule used to determine proximate cause when a plaintiff’s harm is the natural and probable consequence of the defendant’s wrongful act and when an ordinarily reasonable person would have foreseen the harm?
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C4 400 Question
Concurrent causation doctrine
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What is a legal doctrine stating that if a property loss can be attributed to two or more independent concurrent causes—one or more excluded by the policy and one covered—then the policy covers the loss?
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