Business Law Today, Comprehensive 10th Edition by Roger LeRoy Miller

Exercise 15

Business Law Critical Thinking Group Assignment. Assume that your business partner, Gayanne Zokhrabov, was at the train station when a train, traveling at more than 70 mph, hit eighteen-year-old Hiroyuki Joho, who was running across the tracks. The impact killed Joho and flung parts of his body about 100 feet into the air. Some of them landed on Gayanne and knocked her to the ground. As a result, she hurt her shoulder and broke her leg and wrist. She has not been able to work and has hired an attorney to file a negligence lawsuit against Joho's estate. (The attorney believes that Gayanne cannot successfully sue Amtrak because of a lack of proximate cause-it was not reasonably foreseeable that Joho would run across the tracks and his body parts would cause injuries to others.)