Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

Intentional acts and negligent acts that cause injury, along with what is called “strict liability,” all belong to a category of law called “tort” law. Put simply, torts are wrongful acts that cause ...

In University of Massachusetts Building Authority v. Adams Plumbing & Heating, Inc., 2023 Mass. App. Unpub. LEXIS 28, 102 Mass. App. Ct. 1107, the Appeals Court of Massachusetts (Appeals Court) ...

Discover the key differences between comparative and contributory negligence, and learn how each impacts legal liability and ...

Professional Liability Legal Malpractice: Negligence vs. Breach of Contract The statute of limitations for a legal malpractice action arising from negligence is two years. For a breach of contract, it ...

Under Florida law, negligence is the failure to use reasonable care. Negligence is the failure to use the care that a reasonable person would use under the same or similar circumstances or the doing ...

Trucks queuing at a container terminal gate. (photo courtesy of the Port of Los Angeles) SAINT PAUL, Minn. (CN) — Minnesota joined the slight majority of states that recognize tort claims for ...

the Baton Rouge Black Lives Matter case (in which Judge Don Willett has just switched to dissenting, and in which a cert. petition has been filed with the U.S. Supreme Court). In an earlier post, I ...

The recent decision by the federal government to sue Shell Petroleum Development Company on behalf of the communities affected by the Bonga oil spill is commendable. To maintain such an action in ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — The Tennessee Supreme Court has reversed a ruling that set precedence for how government agencies can be sued for negligence according to a release from the court. In most ...