Description: Master the tort law prinicples you'll need to assist in personal injury matters as a paralegal! Taking a case approach, this accessible overview of tort law includes more than 75 annotated cases that illustrate hot button issues and give you an opportunity to apply chapter concepts to the types of cases you will encounter on the job. Hypothetical scenarios in every chapter demonstrate how abstract tort law pertains to real life accidents and injuries. Built-in learning aids include problems, projects, a running glossary of key legal terms, outlines, chapter summaries, and review questions to help you learn the material. Each chapter starts with a vignette titled "The Biggest Mistakes Paralegals Make and How to Avoid Them" illustrating a dilemma, an ethical lapse, or another unfortunate experience that actually happened. Product Benefits: - New content facilitates student understanding of the importance of medical malpractice actions, tort reform, insurance coverage, cyber torts including bullying and stalking, tortious liability for criminal activity, wrongful birth and wrongful life causes of action, genetic engineering and unauthorized uses of DNA, and tortious interference.
- Thorough updating of the law includes increased coverage of workers' compensation, court structure and system, alternative dispute resolution (ADR), as well as comparison of Restatement 2nd and Restatement 3rd of Torts.
- More practical, hands-on activities, references, and websites for further legal research, and over six dozen recent annotated cases (two thirds of which are new to this edition) make this the most authoritative text on the market.
- A new Chapter 2 on Negligence makes this the most comprehensive book for the course.
- Over 75 annotated cases that feature "ripped from the headlines" issues and require students to apply and integrate chapter concepts.
- Hypothetical scenarios demonstrate how abstract tort law pertains to real life accidents and injuries.
Table of Contents: 1. Introduction to Torts and Legal Analysis.
2. Negligence.
3. Proving Breach of Duty, Medical Malpractice, and Legal Malpractice.
4. Special Negligence Actions.
5. Defenses to Negligence.
6. Intentional Torts: Injuries to Persons.
7. Intentional Torts: More Injuries to Persons.
8. Intentional Torts: More Injuries to Property.
9. Defenses to Intentional Torts.
10. Strict, or Absolute, Liability.
11. Products Liability.
12. Special Tort Actions.
13. Tort Immunities.
14. Tort Investigation. |
