Plaintiff
When someone intentionally committed a wrong which causes someone else's injury.
What is an intentional tort?
A costumer slips and falls in your store due to you not putting up a wet floor sign
What is Negligence?
Compensation paid to the injured party for their losses. Try to make the plaintiff "whole" again by the financial,physical,and emotional reimbursement.
What are compensatory damages?
Involves failure to act carefully enough which causes another person to get hurt as a result.
What is negligence?
A batch of children's toys have sharp objects your failure to warn consumers and prevent the toys from being distributed causes multiple children to get hurt.
What is a strict liability?
Meant to punish the defendant for their wrongdoing in order to deter others from doing the same.
What are punitive Damages?
Cases where proof of negligence isn't needed. Must only prove that the victim was hurt because of the other persons/company's actions.
What is a strict liability?
Things get heated between you and work causing you to harm one of your workers physically which causes you to commit battery.
What is an intentional tort?
Medical expenses,lost of wages,Property damages.
What are Economic Damages?
What are Non-Economic damages?