BU231 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Vicarious Liability, Etawah Safari Park, Starbucks
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Tort law: a lawsuit that entitles the victim to be aid for someone else"s wrongful/harmful action(s). Tort law is not about returning bad conduct and punishing. Tort law: there has to be harm or loss; the victim brings a tort lawsuit. You"ll have to do an analysis to figure out what the cause of action was, and see how you can win it. Winner is the one that can prove that they weren"t at fault. Public liability insurance; the number one risk management strategy; every business looks at what they do and how they can harm the public and who can sue them. (people you become liable to, who sues you) Golf course carries it because they designed the course, how the design course lines up, they tell people where to stand, where the holes are, so if anyone gets hit by accident they can be sued.
