Dobbs, Dan B. Hayden, Paul T., 1956- Bublick, Ellen M.
Torts and compensation : personal accountability and social responsability for injury /
- Sexta edición
- Saint Paul : West Publishing Company : Thomson Reuters Business, 2009
- lxiii, 993 páginas ; 26 x 21 cm
- American casebook series .
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PART 1. A FIRST LOOK AT TORTS | Chapter 1. Tort law: aims, approaches, and processes | Chapter 2. Reading torts cases: trial procedures | PART 2. FAULT-BASED LIABILITY FOR PHYSICAL HARMS TO PERSONS AND PROPERTY | TOPIC A. DIRECT INTERNATIONAL WRONGS | Chapter 3. Establishing a claim for international tort to person or property | Chapter 4. Defenses to international torts-privileges | TOPIC B. THE SCHEME OF NEGLIGENT WRONGS | Chapter 5. Duty | Chapter 6. Negligence: breach of duty | Chapter 7. Harm and causation in fact | Chapter 8. Negligence: the scope of risk or “proximate cause” element | Chapter 9. Contributory/comparative fault | Chapter 10. Assumption of the risk | Chapter 11. Defenses not on the merits | PART 3. LIMITING OR EXPANDING THE DUTY OF CARE ACCORDING TO CONTEXT OR RELATIONSHIP | TOPIC A. LIMITING DUTIES ACCORDING TO CLASS OR STATUS OF THE PARTIES | Chapter 12. Carriers, host-drivers and landowners | Chapter 13. Duties of medical and other professionals | Chapter 14. Family members and charities | Chapter 15. Governmental entities and officers | TOPIC B. RELATIONSHIPS OR THEIR ABSENCE: NONACTION, CONTRACT AND PROTECTION FROM OTHERS | Chapter 16. Nonfeasance | Chapter 17. Contract and duty | Chapter 18. The duty to protect from third persons | TOPIC C. LIMITING DUTIES TO PROTECT AGAINST SPECIAL TYPES OF HARM | Chapter 19. Emotional harm | Chapter 20. Prenatal harms | Chapter 21. Death | PART 4. THE EBB AND FLOW OF COMMON LAW STRICT LIABILITY FOR PHYSICAL HARMS | Chapter 22. Vicarious liability | Chapter 23. The development of common law strict liability | Chapter 24. Tort liability for defective products | PART 5. PRACTICALITIES AND VALUES | Chapter 25. Settlement and apportionment | Chapter 26. Damages | Chapter 27. Evaluating tort law | PART 6. ALTERNATIVES TO TORT LAW | Chapter 28. Workers’ compensation | Chapter 29. Public compensation systems, including social security | Chapter 30. Private insurance solutions | Chapter 31. Evaluating injury systems: A discussion agenda | PART 7. ECONOMIC AND DIGNITARY TORTS | Chapter 32. Communication of personally harmful impressions to others | Chapter 33. Communication of commercially harmful impressions to others | Chapter 34. Misrepresentation and other misdealings