In this chapter, the learning objectives are: Meaning of risk management, objectives of risk management, steps in the risk management process, benefits of risk management, personal risk management.
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Lecture No 6
Trang 5• When dealing with property insurance, there are usually only two parties to the contract
Trang 8• Insurance contracts are designed to pay only for certain types of losses
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Trang 18• Imposing restrictions on the right to sue
• Abolishing punitive damages in civil suits
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Trang 20• For example, a city may require that its street paving contractor hold the city harmless for all negligence arising out of the operations of the contractor
Trang 22• Assumption of liability by attendant
arises as to what extent the landlord is responsible for injuries to tenants
owes to members of the public
• Attractive nuisance doctrine
Trang 24• Seller warrants that that when the goods are bought by description instead of by actual inspection the goods are saleable in the hands
of the buyer
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• The damage must occur after the contractor has completed the work
• The work has been accepted by the owner or
abandoned by the contractor
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– Examples include physicians , accountants, architects, insurance agents, lawyers, pharmacists, beauticians
Trang 30– The courts have generally agreed that the automobile is not a dangerous instrumentality in itself
to handle it unless there is obvious evidence of incapacity or known recklessness
– However, in many states, vicarious liability laws have the effect of
making the parent of a minor child liable for damage done by negligent
operation of the car by a minor
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