Negligent Tort

Negligence is a tort law and it falls within the civil law which means a civil wrong has been committed (Tort and Negligence, 2012). The American civil justice system, defines the law of torts as situations that occur when the wrongful conduct of one party causes harm to another individual (WiseGeek, 2003). The responsible party fails to act as a reasonable person to someone to whom she or he owes a duty, as required by law under the circumstances. Negligent torts are not committed purposely, and there must be an injury that occurs from the breach of the duty (Negligent Tort Law, 2014).

A negligent tort is caused by negligent behavior, and this includes a person’s failure to practice due diligence and the negligence committed can be very costly to the company, and if a product manufacturer causes death or injury from using the company’s products, the end result will be legal action that is expensive and time consuming. From the act of negligence a company could publicly be exposed which could result in profit loss due to consumers being afraid or refuse to purchase the product, and the stock values could fall if the company is publicly traded. This can be very damaging for a business and could ultimately force the company to go out of business (Seaquist, 2012). Examples of tort law include assault, nuisance, assault, defamation, and trespass. To sum it all up a tort law case depends on breach of duty, and to prove negligence in a civil court, three elements have to be proven which duty, breach, are and damage (Tort and Negligence, 2012).

There have been many products that have caused major damages to consumers because of the poor quality that they were made in or due to unaware circumstances that the company producing the it...

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