TY - BOOK AU - Diamond, John L. AU - Bernstein, Anita. TI - Understanding Torts SN - 9780769872346 (print) U1 - 346.7303 PY - 2013/// CY - New Providence, NJ PB - LexisNexis KW - Torts KW - United States N1 - Includes index; Intentional interference with persons and property -- Defenses to intentional torts -- The negligence concept and the reasonable person standard of care -- The determination of unreasonableness : breach of duty, custom, and the role of the jury -- Proof of breach -- Statutory standards of care? negligence per se? -- Professional negligence -- Duty in negligence cases -- Land occupier duty -- Duty limited by kind of harm -- Cause-in-fact -- Proximate cause or scope of liability -- Joint and several liability -- Damages -- Defenses -- Strict liability -- Products liability -- Nuisance and trespass -- Economic torts -- Misuse of legal processes -- Defamation -- Invasion of privacy ER -