Question 11 pts

Question 1

Under general American tort principles, which of the following is an example of a situation in which V may sue T for pure emotional harm in tort law (at least if V's emotional injuries are severe and demonstrable)?

Group of answer choices

T killed V's young child while the child was at summer camp, and it devastated V to learn about the injury back home two hours later

T criticized V's idea very harshly in a business meeting

T almost released a poisonous pollutant into V's house's water supply, but didn't, but V finds out about this several months later

T drove a car carelessly and nearly killed V

Question 2Que

Under general American tort principles, which of the following is an example of a situation in which V may sue T for pure emotional harm in tort law (at least if V's emotional injuries are severe and demonstrable)?

Group of answer choices

T is a city contractor working outside V's house and negligently blocks V's driveway for an hour, preventing V from leaving for work.

T is a taxi driver and is thirty minutes late in picking up V for an important meeting, causing V significant economic harm because of a missed business opportunity

T is an electrician working on V's house, and while V is away, T nearly burns down the house, and V learns about this at the end of the day.

T is a hospital taking care of V's father, and it negligently sends V an email incorrectly stating that V's father has died.

Question 3

Under general American tort principles, which of the following is an example of a situation in which V may sue T for pure emotional harm in tort law (at least if V's emotional injuries are severe and demonstrable)?

Group of answer choices

T is a hospital caring for V's mother. V's mother dies, and T negligently destroys the corpse.

V is a customer-service representative for a large utility company, and T is a customer. On the phone, T yells at V and insults her.

T negligently kills V's spouse in a car accident while V is out of the country.

T is V's boss, and T fires her in breach of a one-year contract.

Question 4

Under general American tort principles, which of the following is an example of a situation in which V may sue T for economic harms that result from T's negligence?

Group of answer choices

T drives negligently and causes a accident, which closes a local road for two hours. V lives at the end of the road, cannot get to work that morning, and is fired.

T carelessly drives significantly under the speed limit on a one-way road, causing V to be late to an important business meeting.

T drives negligently and causes an accident, which closes a local road for two hours. V's restaurant, at the end of the road, loses business.

T physically injures V in a car accident, causing V to miss months of work.

question 5: Match each statement with the sort of harms that the statement addresses. An answer may be used multiple times (or not at all).

choices for each question:

pure emotional harm

pure economic harm

harms from property damage

harms from physical injury

1. Harms in this category must generally be severe in order to be recoverable at all.

2. The "impact rule" used to be one limit on recovery for this type of harm.

3. Generally recoverable under modern law for people in the "zone of danger."

4. Many courts have said that if we permit these harms to be recoverable, we will invite fraud and there will be a flood of litigation, because the harms are difficult to discern and measure, and easy to fake.