Tort liability arises in a number of ways, including the tort of negligence. This guide explains how tort law works, when a tortfeasor can be held liable for harm and what types of legal remedies ...

Ordinarily, vicarious liability doesn’t apply for intentional torts unless the employer authorized the action or the action was done in furtherance of the employer’s business. Harm or damage.

Certainly it does—but not in the strict version that courts apply to vicarious liability in tort. The criminal-law heritage of §487 obliges courts to construe the proscribed conduct carefully.

Vicarious and contributory liability are terms well-known to every tort lawyer and law student. They should also be familiar to business owners and managers. The legal theories of vicarious and ...

Any professors out there still writing their Torts exams? Consider this fact pattern, starring Robert Shapiro of O.J. Simpson fame. The indicted chief of a fraudulent insurance company, David ...

Vicarious liability and 'a frolic of their own' Another case further demonstrating the progression this year was Isma Ali v Luton Borough Council [2022] EWCH 132 (QB) which again focused on the second ...

Matthew G. Moffett (left) and M. Ryan Del Campo of Gray, Rust, St. Amand, Moffett & Brieske in Atlanta. (Courtesy photos) Six months after attorneys disputed an employer's vicarious liability for ...

The public outcry led to a wave of tort reform that was brutal but effective. By refusing to address the problem of vicarious liability for business under the new tort, parliament has skewed the ...