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Tort Law Chs. 14, 15, 16 (Fall 22)

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Personal injury claims have experienced little or no ___ since 1986.
Tort reform ___ does not necessarily prevent runaway verdicts.
If a loss caused by joint tortfeasors is indivisible, or cannot be apportioned among the defendants, the joint tortfeasors bear ___ ___ ____ liability.
Under the rule of joint and several liability, each joint ___ can be held responsible for the entire harm or any designated portion of the harm, and the plaintiff may recover from one or all of the joint tortfeasors, though limited in total recovery by the total amount of damages.
Under the collateral ___ rule, the tortfeasor is prevented from benefiting from insurance protection the plaintiff has obtained.
Whether one is considered an independent contractor or an employee for the purpose of determining whether vicarious liability applies usually comes down to a question of the level of ______ the employer has over the work of person in question.
Dr. John ___ attributes the decline in jury verdicts to jurors' awareness of the effects that large awards in automobile cases can have on their insurance premiums.
The goal of reformers in the Progressive Era was to create rules in the tort system that favor ___.
Parents can be held liable for the intentional torts of their children under statutes that impute liability to the parents under a theory of ______ supervision.
The concept of respondeat superior applies to negligent torts, intentional torts, and strict liability claims. The employee must be acting within the _____ and in furtherance of their employment for the employer to be vicariously liable for their actions.
Tort __ claim that Americans are too litigious.
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The doctrine of ______ superior makes an employer vicariously liable for the tortious conduct of its employees.
The goal of classical reformers was to create rules in the tort system that favored ___.
Proponents of tort reform argue that increased tort liability has increased the practice of ___ medicine.
Where there is joint and several liability, a defendant who pays more than his pro rata share of damages is entitled to _____, or partial reimbursement, from other defendants.
A joint tortfeasor who agrees to ___ another joint tortfeasor accepts all financial responsibility on behalf of that tortfeasor.
An employer can even be vicariously liable for an action that they have specifically ____ the employee from engaging in, if that action was done within the scope and in furtherance of the employment.
______ liability is the doctrine under which one individual is held liable for the tortious acts of another.
Tort law exposes incompetence, corruption, and other forms of ___.
___ tortfeasors are two or more persons who act in concert to produce a negligent or intentional tort.
Dr. John Hasnas believes that we are better off with the dynamic but imperfect system of the ___ law.
Those who argue that the tort system is too ___-oriented point to the expansion of strict liability and the adoption of comparative negligence.
Litigation rates are not significantly ___ in the US than they are in other industrialized countries.
As a general rule, with some exceptions, one is not vicariously liable for the tortious ____ of an independent contractor.