Cruise Ship Lawyer Fundamentals 3

Question 1

What is the basic definition of 'tort' relevant to passenger injury cases?

Accepted Answer

A civil wrong causing harm for which the law provides a remedy

Answer

A tort is a civil wrong, such as negligence, that causes harm and gives rise to liability.

Question 2

To prove negligence against a cruise line, a plaintiff must show duty, breach, causation, and what else?

Accepted Answer

Damages

Answer

Negligence requires duty, breach, causation, and actual damages.

Question 3

Under the cruise context, 'notice' usually means the cruise line knew or should have known about what?

Accepted Answer

The dangerous condition that caused injury

Answer

Liability often hinges on whether the cruise line had actual or constructive notice of the hazard.

Question 4

Which legal principle reduces a plaintiff's recovery based on their own share of fault?

Accepted Answer

Comparative negligence

Answer

Comparative negligence apportions damages according to each party's percentage of fault.

Question 5

The Latin term 'res ipsa loquitur' means the thing speaks for itself, implying what?

Accepted Answer

Negligence is inferred from the accident itself

Answer

Res ipsa loquitur lets negligence be inferred when an accident wouldn't normally happen without negligence.

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