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Strict liability
Strict liability makes a person responsible
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the damage and loss caused
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his acts or omissions
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having to prove negligence. Today strict liability is mostly associated
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defectively manufactured products.
If you've been injured
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a faulty or defective product, or shoddy manufacturing, your lawyer will help you file a lawsuit
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a strict liability tort that will target the manufacturer of the defective product. In this case, your lawyer may even try to contact other victims and file a class action suit
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an irresponsible company. Injured plaintiffs have to prove that the product caused the harm but do not have to prove how the manufacturer was careless.
Remedies
Most any lawsuit filed for a personal injury is going to fall
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tort law. In tort cases, the main goal is to collect money, also called damages, to recover
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lost income, to account
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pain and suffering, and to reimburse
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any medical expenses that the victim has incurred as a result of their injury. In a few personal injury lawsuits, the claimants seek something other than money, sometimes imprisonment
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the defendant, although this is rare.
When an individual suffers some harm or injury which is recognized by society
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a wrongful act, the court will grant remedies in order to compensate or redress the damage.
There are four basic types of judicial remedies:
1.
restitution
2.
rescission
3.
coercive remedies: injunction and decree of specific performance
4.
damages: compensatory and punitive.
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