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Negligent entrustment is a cause of action in United States tort law which arises where one party ("the entrustor") is held liable for negligence because...

violation of a duty of care through a negligent act. The concept of negligence is linked to the obligation of individuals to exercise reasonable care...

The tort of negligent infliction of emotional distress (NIED) is a controversial cause of action, which is available in nearly all U.S. states but is severely...

creator of the hazard – who may not necessarily have been a negligent tortfeasor – has a duty to rescue the individual in peril. Such a duty may also...

of Donoghue v Stevenson, where a woman succeeded in establishing a manufacturer of ginger beer owed her a duty of care, where it had been negligently...

performance of the insider's duties at the corporation. Breach of fiduciary duty by a lawyer with regard to a client, if negligent, may be a form of legal malpractice;...

Four basic causes of action may arise from such a scenario: negligent hiring, negligent retention, negligent supervision and negligent training. While negligence...

was negligent in order to win their case. Negligence can be established, by the pursuer, by demonstrating that the defender owed to them a 'duty of care'...

deliberately refusing to deliver necessary goods. A tort of negligent interference occurs when one party's negligence damages the contractual or business...

standard of ordinary negligence is what conduct deviates from that of a "reasonable person". By extension, if somebody has been grossly negligent, that means...

requirement that a duty of care be defined by law, though it will often develop through the jurisprudence of common law. At common law, duties were formerly...

limitations of an equitable remedy. For a misrepresentation to occur, especially a negligent misrepresentation, the following elements need to be satisfied...

be unaware of facts which would render them liable. Criminally negligent manslaughter occurs where there is an omission to act when there is a duty to...

doctrine, for negligent acts or omissions by their employees in the course of employment (sometimes referred to as 'scope and course of employment')....

defendant to be deemed negligent, he must have breached his duty of care towards the plaintiff. In order to be deemed as breaching the duty of care, his...

of the injury to the person is also able to make a claim, then potentially the negligent party (and the courts) could be opened up to a vast array of...

breached their duty to the customer by not eliminating a reasonably foreseeable risk caused by the product. The manufacturer can be seen as negligent if there...

of proximity, and it must be fair, just and reasonable to impose liability. The final conclusion arose in the context of a negligent preparation of accounts...

A duty to warn is a concept that arises in the law of torts in a number of circumstances, indicating that a party will be held liable for injuries caused...

recognised in Scotland that one's physical - and by extension one's mental - health might be 'damnified' for the purposes of an Aquilian action, hence intentional...