BUS 393 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Contributory Negligence, High Standard Manufacturing Company, Misfeasance

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Business Administration
• Course: BUS 393
• Professor: Shafik Bhalloo

Document Summary

Chapter 5: negligence, professional liability and insurance: negligence. Inadvertent, careless conduct that causes injury to other. Important area of tort liability for professionals: negligence: it"s a, b, c, and d. If it would be apparent to a prudent person that the conduct was likely to cause injury- duty is owed. We owe a duty to anyone we can reasonably anticipate might be harmed by our conduct: anns case. The second policy aspect of the anns test will only be applied to those new situations that don"t fit into a category of negligence where a duty of care has already been recognized by the courts. Donoghue v. stevenson set several procedures in the law of negligence. The test to determine the existence of a duty. Product liability: manufacture owes a duty to customers. Privity of contract will not defeat an action for negligence in product liability case p148: a: a duty to exercise care must exist.