The United States legal system protects business owners and employees from being affected by constant moving of technology that is upgrading all the time in the world. There are laws set in place to protect business' and other people from being liable for an incident that may have happened under the supervision of one person. Torts are wrong doings that are committed by one person or party against another.
Torts are extremely important to know about in business, especially if one wants to be involved in owning a business or anything to do with a higher up rank. They are violations that are included in civil law. In which a person can be held liable for acting in no way of their own fault. Committing wrongs in tortious situations are stated as intentional, negligent, or strict liability torts. Torts are a civil action which involves private parties. Their punishments if need be, doesn't include a fine or incarceration. Their punishments usually involves restoring the injured party and paying their needs at the time of the incident. Sometimes a court order may force the tortfeasor to do something for the injured victim but usually that isn't needed.
Tort Law is sometimes called personal injury law. That is due to the fact of being able to help a person if someone is seen to be careless, reckless or …show more content…
Negligence is defined as the failure to use reasonable care to avoid a foreseeable harm to a person, place or thing(Samuelson, pg 77). One person can be liable if their failure to act upon a situation causes an injury. There are primarily five elements to be deemed negligent. They are as follows; (1) Defendant owed a duty of reasonable care; (2) Defendant did not behave in a reasonable manner to demonstrate care; (3) Plaintiff suffered an injury as a result of the defendant's actions or inactions; (4) The injury caused actual damages; (5) Proximate cause: defendant's actions or inactions were the cause of the injury
Torts are extremely important to know about in business, especially if one wants to be involved in owning a business or anything to do with a higher up rank. They are violations that are included in civil law. In which a person can be held liable for acting in no way of their own fault. Committing wrongs in tortious situations are stated as intentional, negligent, or strict liability torts. Torts are a civil action which involves private parties. Their punishments if need be, doesn't include a fine or incarceration. Their punishments usually involves restoring the injured party and paying their needs at the time of the incident. Sometimes a court order may force the tortfeasor to do something for the injured victim but usually that isn't needed.
Tort Law is sometimes called personal injury law. That is due to the fact of being able to help a person if someone is seen to be careless, reckless or …show more content…
Negligence is defined as the failure to use reasonable care to avoid a foreseeable harm to a person, place or thing(Samuelson, pg 77). One person can be liable if their failure to act upon a situation causes an injury. There are primarily five elements to be deemed negligent. They are as follows; (1) Defendant owed a duty of reasonable care; (2) Defendant did not behave in a reasonable manner to demonstrate care; (3) Plaintiff suffered an injury as a result of the defendant's actions or inactions; (4) The injury caused actual damages; (5) Proximate cause: defendant's actions or inactions were the cause of the injury