Discover tort law, covering civil suits outside of contracts, focusing on negligence, intentional harm, and strict liability with examples and explanations.

Tort laws entitle you to pursue a civil lawsuit if someone hurts you. There are both intentional torts and negligent torts. Negligent torts are caused by careless behavior while intentional torts ...

This panel will explore the bi-directional relationship between the fields of tort law and health law. The influence of tort law on some basic aspects of health law is well known. For example ...

Proponents of "tort reform" argue that it reduces the cost of "defensive medicine," meaning the overuse of tests and procedures to ward off potential lawsuits.

American federalism these days is the tale of progressive versus conservative states, and another example comes via looming tort law changes in New York and Georgia. New York Attorney General ...