Intentional Torts
This tort involves contact that is harmful or offensive.
What is battery.
This tort involves fraudulently converting property entrusted to you to your own use with intent to steal it.
What is embezzlement.
Every person has a _______ to act reasonably at all times.
What is duty.
One or more products left the manufacturer in an abnormally dangerous condition.
What is a design defect.
Which is the element that that is the same in every tort in this category?
What is intent.
This tort involves a false statement that harms another's reputation.
What is defamation.
A business owner owes this duty to all persons who enter the premises.
What is warn, inspect, and make safe all known dangers.
The manufacturer does not place adequate warnings about the dangers of the product.
What is a failure to warn defect.
This tort involves conduct that is extreme and outrageous.
What is intentional infliction of emotional distress.
This tort involves interfering with an existing contract such that the contract is breached.
What is tortious interference with contract.
To prevail in a claim of negligence, these four elements must be proven by a preponderance of the evidence
What is duty, breach, causation, and damages.
This defense emphasizes that one side voluntarily took the risk of using the product
What is assumption of the risk.
This tort involves interfering with someone's personal property.
What is trespass to chattels.
This is a defense to defamation.
Truth!
Actual cause may be stated as:
What is "but for" cause
This defense measures each side's percentage of fault.
What is contributory negligence.
This is an all-purpose defense to all intentional torts.
What is consent.
What is negligent hiring.
This element of negligence turns on whether an act was foreseeable.
What is proximate cause.
What is a commercial seller.