Ian McGregor - Core Concepts in Negligence & Legal Liability

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:

• 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