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First Principles of Business Law |
| The tort of Negligence |
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6. Causation |
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6.1.4. Different types of harm continued... |
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Read the following facts and then answer the question. A is an employment consultant. In 1990, B asks A to test her business skills because she wants to apply for a good job she has seen advertised. Because of a careless error by A in the computation of the test results, B scores badly on the tests. When told her results B decides not to apply for the job and is unemployed for the next five years. When she next applies for a job, she wins a two year contract, but lacking confidence because of the test results, she performs badly and is dismissed after a month. Then B discovers the truth about her test results. What types of harm have occurred here that would be actionable under the tort of Negligence? |
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1. Purely economic (or financial) harm? 2. Harm in the form of a lost opportunity or chance? |
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