BLBU 2234 Chapter 7: Intentional Torts
3 Feb 2019
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Law of torts has 3 principal objectives: compensate persons who sustain harm/loss resulting from another"s actions, place cost of that compensation only on parties who should bear it, prevent future harms/losses. Duty owed by one person to another is breached and proximately causes injury or damage to owner of a legally protected interest. Tort action: injured party sues to recover compensation for injury sustained. Tort reform: focused on limiting liability by restricting damages and narrowing claims. Actor desires to cause the consequences of his act or that he believes that those consequences are sustainably certain to result from it. Acts knowing that the consequence is substantially certain to result. Infants (under age of majority-18) are held liable. Age and knowledge are critical in determining whether they had sufficient intelligence to form basic intent. Battery: intentional infliction or harmful/offensive bodily contact: contact is offensive if it would offend a reasonable person"s sense of dignity (even if only intended as joke/compliment)
