Business Law Unit 3: Tort Law

All of the following are things that a jury considers when awarding damages except

• Medical Bills

• Future Wages

• Pain and Suffering

• Wages Lost

• Money for relatives indirectly affected

Assumption of Risk would be a useful defense in which scenario?

• Car Accident

• Skydiving

• Choking on food with an unexpected bone in it

• Robbery

In Wisconsin, if the Plaintiff in a case was found 70% negligent and the defendant was found 30% negligent, what would happen with the damages?

• The plaintiff would receive nothing because of the 51% Bar Rule

• The plaintiff would get paid 70% of the damages from the government, and the defendant would get paid 30% of the damages from the government

• The defendant would pay only 70% of the plaintiff’s damages

• The defendant would pay the plaintiff 70% and the government 30% of the damages

In, Wisconsin, if the Plaintiff in a case was found 30% guilty and the defendant was found 70% guilty, what would happen with the damages? (Same scenario, only the percentages are reversed)

• The plaintiff would receive nothing because of the 51% Bar Rule

• The plaintiff would get paid 70% of the damages from the government, and the defendant would get paid 30% of the damages from the government

• The defendant would pay only 70% of the plaintiff’s damages and the plaintiff forfeits 30%

• The defendant would pay the plaintiff 70% and the government 30% of the damages

Defenses to negligence include comparative negligence and

• entrapment

• self-defense

• insanity

• assumption of risk

A private wrong committed by one person, business, or group against another is defined as

• Tort

• Crime

• Injury

• Breach of Duty

The four elements of a tort are:

• Duty of Care + Breach of Duty + Injury + Causation

• Duty of Care + Injury + Wrongful Act + Liability

• Injury + Failure to Warn + Negligence + Damages

• Wrongful Act + Causation + Liability + Settlement

A person would be negligent in tort even if the harm was unforeseeable.

• true

• false

A monetary award that is set high enough to punish the defendant

• compensatory damages
• damages
• injunction
• punitive damages

A legal doctrine that says that some activities are so dangerous that liability will always follow any injury that results from those activities

• Assumption of risk

• Contributory negligence

• Strict liability

• Comparative negligence