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Law of Torts exists to protect individuals from any wrong doings that they’ve encountered because of another individual and to be able to have that potentially guilty party held liable by the courts and award the victim monetary compensation. Common law and state statutory law identifies the limits of tort law and they are divided into three categories; intentional torts, negligent torts and strict liability torts ("Tort | Wex Legal Dictionary / Encyclopedia | LII / Legal Information Institute," n.d.).

I wholeheartedly agree with the McDonalds hot Coffee Case reading the facts that McDonalds knew that they were serving coffee well above safe temperatures to serve a hot beverage and had received complaints from over seven hundred people who

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