Compensatory Damages

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A brief excerpt from Quimbee's lecture video on compensatory and punitive damages in tort law. Check out Quimbee’s current offerings at https://www.quimbee.com/ • For just $15/month, you can get access to Quimbee's expansive library of law tutorials, lecture videos, practice questions, and case briefs. Enroll today at https://www.quimbee.com/users/sign_up • This video is just one of 70 videos in our lecture on torts. • Torts table of contents: • 1. Introduction • Opening Remarks • 2. Intentional Torts • Intent • Battery • Assault • False Imprisonment • Trespass to Land • Trespass to Chattel and Conversion of Chattel • Examples of Trespass and Conversion of Chattel • Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress • 3. Defenses to Intentional Torts • Self-Defense • Defending and Retaking Property: Use of Force • Defending and Retaking Property: Shopkeeper's Privileges • Consent • Necessity • 4. The Basic Elements of Negligence • Introduction to Negligence • 5. Negligence: Duty of Care • Importance of Duty and the No Duty to Act Rule • General Reasonable Person Standard • Introduction to Professional and Medical Liability • Duties of Children and Other Particular Standards of Care • Duty to Foreseeable Plaintiffs • Duties of Landowners to Trespassers, Licensees, and Invitees • Examples of the Duties of Landowners to Trespassers, Licensees, and Invitees • Duties of Landowners to Their Residential Tenants • Duties of Landowners to Child Trespassers • Introduction to Recreational Use Statutes • Duty to Protect from Third Persons: Defendant's Relationship with Plaintiff • Duty to Protect from Third Persons: Defendant's Relationship with the Third Person • Duty Arising from Risk Creation • Duty Arising from a Promise, Undertaking, or Relationship • Duties of Those Who Furnish Alcohol for Profit • Duties Among Family Members • 6. Negligence: Particular Issues • Negligent Infliction of Emotional Distress • Slip and Fall Cases • Toxic Torts • The Firefighter's Rule • Good Samaritan Laws • 7. Negligence: Breach • Evaluating Defendant's Conduct and Establishing Breach • Negligence Per Se • Res Ipsa Loquitur • 8. Negligence: Harm and Actual Causation • Actual Harm • Tests for Actual Causation • 9. Negligence: Proximate Cause • Introduction to Proximate Cause • Role of Intervening Persons or Forces • Relationship Between Proximate Cause and Plaintiff's Fault • 10. Defenses to Negligence • Contributory Negligence • Comparative Fault Schemes • Plaintiff's Illegal Activity • Assumption of the Risk • Statutes of Limitation • 11. Vicarious Liability • Introduction to Vicarious Liability • Respondeat Superior: The Master-Servant Relationship • Respondeat Superior: Scope of Employment (Negligence) • Respondeat Superior: Scope of Employment (Intentional Torts) • Employer Liability for the Torts of Independent Contractors • 12. Strict Liability • Introduction to Strict Liability • Trespassing Animals • Nuisance • Abnormally Dangerous Activities • Defenses to Strict Liability • 13. Products Liability • Introduction to Products Liability • Manufacturing Defects • Manufacturing Defects in Food • Design Defects • Exclusion of Mere Economic Loss • Warning or Informational Defects • Negligence in Products Liability • Strict Liability in Products Liability • Defenses to Product Liability • 14. Responsibility and Damages • Joint and Several Liability • Contribution in a Joint and Several Liability System • Indemnification, Subrogation, and Satisfaction • Compensatory and Punitive Damages • Death in Tort Law • Avoidable Consequences and Plaintiff's Mitigation of Damages • Emotional Distress as Damage • Loss of Consortium • 15. Economic, Dignitary, and Relational Torts • Introduction to Defamation • Defamation in Light of the First Amendment • Privileges and Defenses to Defamation • Damages in Common Law Defamation • 16. Conclusion • Final Thoughts

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