Negligent Termite Inspector Can be Liable to Forseeable Subsequent Home Purchasers

Consumer Reliance on Statements About Pre-Existing Condition Coverage Creates Potential Liability for Insurance Company

The Hosfords consequently sued State Termite and the Inspector alleging negligence and several other theories of recovery. In the Circuit Court of Lowndes County, Mississippi, State Termite did not deny that a pest control operator is held to a duty of reasonable care similar to that imposed upon anyone providing expert or specialized services to the public. Rather, State Termite claimed there ...

Empirical Comparisons of the Contributory versus Comparative Negligence Rules

The liability rule traditionally used in accident law when both the injurer’s and the victim’s behaviour affect the likelihood of an accident occurring is the rule of contributory negligence. Under it, the injurer is liable for the full amount of the victim’s damage only if the injurer’s behavior is negligent and the victim’s behavior is non-negligent. If both parties are negligent, only the vi...

The Negligent Notary Public–Employee: Is His Employer Liable?

حقوق بیماران و مسؤولیت مدنی پزشکی

These days, because of cultural development and mental growth and also improvement in human culture more attention is given to the patient’s rights, so that governments in different societies attempt to support this damageable group more than before. Always in the realm of the Law science, also, some questions were posed regarding this subject and jurisprudents, according to their capa...

Torts, expertise, and authority: liability of physicians and managed care organizations.

We examine optimal individual and entity-level liability for negligence when expected accident costs depend on both the agent's level of expertise and the principal's level of authority. We consider these issues in the context of physician and managed care organization (MCO) liability for medical malpractice. Under current law, physicians generally are considered independent contractors and hen...