Torts & Personal Injury Flashcards
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Battery is best defined as:
Answer: Intentional harmful or offensive contact with another
Battery requires intentional harmful or offensive contact.
Assault as a tort requires that the plaintiff:
Answer: Reasonably apprehend imminent harmful or offensive contact
Assault protects against reasonable apprehension of imminent contact, no touching needed.
A security officer detains a suspect without legal justification. The most likely tort claim is:
Answer: False imprisonment
Unjustified confinement against a person's will is false imprisonment.
Under respondeat superior, an employer can be liable for:
Answer: Torts an employee commits within the scope of employment
Employers are vicariously liable for employees' torts within the scope of employment.
Negligent retention occurs when an employer:
Answer: Keeps an employee it knew or should have known was unfit or dangerous
Employers can be directly liable for retaining employees they knew posed foreseeable risks.
Defamation requires a false statement that is:
Answer: Published to a third party and harms reputation
Defamation requires a false statement of fact communicated to a third party that harms reputation.
Intentional infliction of emotional distress requires conduct that is:
Answer: Extreme and outrageous
IIED requires extreme and outrageous conduct causing severe emotional distress.
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