Deck 7: Tort Law, Workers Compensation, and Environmental Law

Question 1

Strict liability is liability without fault.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Which of the following is not an element of negligence?

A) duty to use due care
B) intent
C) damages
D) causation
E) breach

Answer 2

B

Question 3

In general, injured workers cannot sue employers under:

A) workers' compensation law
B) tort law
C) negligence
D) peculiar risk doctrine
E) assumption of the risk

Answer 3

B

Question 4

Contributory risk is a defense to negligence.

Question 5

The two major defenses to intentional torts are consent and privilege.

Question 6

Intentional infliction of emotion distress causes:

A) mental suffering
B) general damages
C) special damages
D) negligence
E) mental disorder

Question 7

Negligence is the failure to act as a reasonably prudent person would act under similar circumstances.

Question 8

The law will not allow a person to escape liability for dangerous activities by simply:

A) leaving the state
B) hiring an independent contractor to perform for them
C) declaring bankruptcy
D) changing his or her procedures after an injury has occurred
E) declaring that the injured person assumed the risk

Question 9

Punitive damages are also known as:

A) special damages
B) medical damages
C) personal damages
D) exemplary damages
E) extraordinary damages

Question 10

An intentional tort is one in which the party committing the tort intends to do the act knowing it will cause serious injury.

Question 11

A cause of action is a legally recognized right to relief or damages.

Question 12

Which of the following is not a defense to negligence?

A) assumption of the risk
B) contributory negligence
C) comparative negligence
D) immunity
E) self defense

Question 13

Activities that give rise to strict liability are:

A) driving a dangerous car
B) engaging in an ultrahazardous activity
C) fighting
D) battery
E) selling pharmaceuticals

Question 14

Filing an unjustified criminal complaint against an individual leads to the tort of:

A) negligence
B) civil-rights violation
C) malicious prosecution
D) slander per se
E) fraud

Question 15

Res ipsa loquitur means

A) breach of duty
B) causation
C) the things speaks for itself
D) it is proven
E) reasonably prudent person

Question 16

Personal injury practice deals with lawsuits for money damages for injuries that people have suffered.

Question 17

Defamation involves the unprivileged publication of a factual statement that is untrue and injurious or defamatory to a person's reputation.

Question 18

A tortfeasor is the injured person.

Question 19

Which of the following is not a type of negligence action?

A) liability of landowners
B) automobile accidents
C) professional negligence
D) intentional infliction of emotional distress
E) defective products

Question 20

Vicarious liability is also known as respondeat superior.
Multiple Choice