Understanding how the critical concept of "reasonable standard of care" can impact the sport, leisure, and recreation industry is a critical factor in all risk-management planning efforts. To help better gain such an understanding, Core Concepts in Negligence & Legal Liability explains what constitutes negligence and explores how negligence and legal liability are established through the courts.
Among the topics covered:
Among the topics covered:
- Understanding why negligence liability is such a big deal
- Key elements of negligence and the process for establishing
- duty of care
- standard of care
- proximate cause
- damage
- Establishing who is liable for negligence
- personal liability
- vicarious liability
- products liability
- occupiers' liability
- Defenses against negligence
- waivers
- assumption of risk
- contributory negligence
