Tort Law

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain business related torts including disparagement, interference with economic relations, misrepresentation, breach of contract, and wrongful discharge.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to define defamation, libel, slander, defamatory statements, and publication, including available defenses and damages.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain intentional torts including elements, types, definition of intent, remedies, and damages.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain invasion of privacy torts including defenses and available remedies.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain the processes for litigation and alternative methods of resolution for tort complaints.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain the tort of negligence including the definition and sources of duty, essential elements, definition of duty of care, elements of breach of duty.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain the elements of causation, defenses, remedies, and damages related to the tort of negligence.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain the concept of nuisance including types, private nuisance, public nuisance, remedies, and damages.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain premises liability including related duties and liabilities of landholder toward persons entering property, invitees, tenants, and buyers.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain the doctrine of immunity from tort liability and concept of privilege as it relates to tort law.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain products liability including basic theories, essential elements, and available defenses.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain strict liability including situations in which it applies, scope, and available defenses.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain tort law related to the concept of survival, wrongful death, wrongful birth, wrongful life, wrongful pregnancy, and wrongful adoption, and loss of consortium.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain the basic concepts of tort law including the definition, purposes, differences between tort law and other types of law, sources, classification, and essential elements.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to define family-related torts including available remedies and damages.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain vicarious liability included related principals, such as principal-agent relationships, frolic and a detour, independent contractors and employer relationships, joint enterprises, and concept of dram shop liability.