Tort Law for Businesspeople
Learn about the law of torts in the US, including identifying and proving torts as a defendant or plaintiff. Protect yourself or your business from tort claims and understand how to prove damages. This course is ideal for anyone interested in business law or related fields.
What you’ll learn
- Explore the law of torts as practiced in the United States.
- Identify each tort alleged against you as a defendant or in your favor as a plaintiff.
- Discover how to prove that a tort has occurred or how to defend against a charge that you or your business has acted tortiously.
- Recognize what is needed to protect yourself or your company against charges that you or your business or its employees acted tortiously.
- Recognize what you need to prove damages when you, your business or your employees are the victim of a tort.
Every person in business and every business faces an exposure to suits seeking damages claiming that the conduct of the business, its employees, or officers caused damage to their person or property due to negligence or some intentional tort. In order to protect the business and avoid or limit damages claimed in lawsuits due to wrongful conduct by the business or its officers or directors, the person taking this course will learn everything needed to understand the torts of negligence, strict liability in tort, and damages as a result of ultra-hazardous activities. The course also covers the intentional torts of assault, battery, defamation, trespass, and malicious prosecution. The course concludes with the defenses available to people charged with a tort.
Who this course is for:
- Anyone interested in Business Law or related fields.
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