1. T/F: A party injured by another's negligence but who is found to have committed comparative negligence, will recover nothing
2. The civil counterpart to theft is?
3. Assumption of risk is a defense to?
4. One who commits a tort is called the?
5. In Belanger v. Swift Transportation, Inc., after Belanger had an accident driving a company vehicle, the accident was reported to a government website. Belanger claimed that Swift acted with malice and lost any reference related privilege by reporting information to a third party website
6. Bill is a lab technician and in charge of safety inspections and injury prevention due to faulty equipment at a university chemistry lab. One morning, as a result of his inspection, Bill discovers a gas burner with a broken valve. Bill gets distracted and fails to put an "OUT OF ORDER/DO NOT USE" sign on the faulty burner. When the morning class arrives, Halle uses the faulty burner and is burned when it catches fire. Bill's negligence is based on?
7. In which of the following situations would res ipsa loquiter likely apply?
8. Name three categories of torts
9. Santiago rents a boat slip at the Angler hotel dock based on misrepresentations by the manager that a full-time security guard was employed to watch the dock. One night the boat next to Santiago's is burglarized. in a lawsuit against Angler Hotel for fraudulent misrepresentation who would prevail?
10. Pennsylvania passes a state statute that gives the right for any dairy farmer to sue any party who wrongfully defames milk produced in Pennsylvania. This is an example of a what statute