News: Vicarious Liability

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The term vicarious liability comes up in personal injury claims frequently.

I've used some of the study guides from lawteacher.net before, so when I got in I checked out tort law cases - vicarious liability on their website. Sure enough, they had a really useful description of vicarious liability, right there. If only you were allowed to look at the internet in exams. Of course that would be cheating, though.

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Jane Coleman’s new short treatise on contributory and vicarious liability for trademark infringement is the first work to analyze and digest thoroughly the entire law on this developing subject. If you've heard about the "Tiffany v. eBay" case and it made you curious, this is where the answers are!

There are important implications to these vicarious liability.

Fascinating case of how a court has chosen to apply vicarious liability in a manslaughter case. Not sure I agree with the court judgment, but I see the logic behind the decision. Let's hope the judgment acts as a strong deterrent to incitement to murder and other form of malicious harm...provoked or otherwise

Until recently, victims of automobile accidents in New York had protection through a legal concept called vicarious liability, which allowed victims of car accidents to hold the car owner liable in cases that involved negligence, even if the owner was not the driver of the vehicle....