Legal & Insurance Concerns

____________ is being legally responsible for harm one causes another person.

• Negligence

• Misfeasance

• Malfeasance

• Liability

____________ is failure to use ordinary reasonable care.

• Liability

• Negligence

• Standard of care

• Misfeasance

Standard of reasonable care assumes what?

• That a person uses an ordinary amount of cautiousness

• That a person uses an extra amount of cautiousness

• That a person does not use any cautiousness

__________ are illegal wrongdoings committed against a person or property of another.

• Torts

• Good Samaritan

• Liabilities

• Mistakes

An individual failing to perform a legal duty is an example of what?

• Nonfeasance

• Misfeasance

• Malfeasance

• Negligence

When an individual commits an act that is not legally theirs to perform they are committing what?

• Nonfeasance

• Malfeasance

• Misfeasance

• Negligence

When an individual improperly does something that they have the legal right to do, they are committing what?

• Nonfeasance

• Malfeasance

• Misfeasance

• Negligence

What is the most common tort to be sued for?

• Negligence

• Misfeasance

• Malfeasance

• Nonfeasance

______________ is alleged when a person does something that a reasonably careful person would not do or fails to do something that a reasonable careful person would do under similar circumstance.

• Negligence

• Misfeasance

• Malfeasance

• Nonfeasance

What must be established to accuse someone of being negligent?

• There was a duty of care between the injured person and the person responsible for causing the injury

• Conduct of the AT fell short of the standard of care

• The AT caused the injury to occur

• Personal, property, or punitive damages resulted

• The motive behind the AT's negligence