Torts and compensation : personal accountability and social responsibility for injury / Dan B. Dobbs, Paul T. Hayden.

Contents
Part 1. A first look at Torts
Chapter 1. Tort Law: Aims, Approaches, and Process
Chapter 2. Reading tort cases and understanding trial procedure

Part II. Fault-Based Liability for Physical Harms to persons and property
Chapter 3. Intentional torts to person and property
Chapter 4. Defences to international torts: privileges
Chapter 5. The prima facie case for negligence and the element of duty
Chapter 6 Breach of duty
Chapter 7. Actual harm and factual cause
Chapter 8. Scope of liability (proximate cause)
Chapter 9. Fault of the plaintiff
Chapter 10. Assumption of the risk
Chapter 11. Defences not on the merits

Part III. Limiting or Expanding the Duty of Care According to Context or relationship
Chapter 12. Carriers, host-drivers and landowners
Chapter 13. Duties of health-care providers
Chapter 14. Family members and charities
Chapter 15. Governmental entities, officers and employees
Chapter 16. Nonfeasance
Chapter 17. Contract and duty
Chapter 18. The duty to protect from third persons
Chapter 19. Emotional harm
Chapter 20. Prenatal harms
Chapter 21. Wrongful death and survival actions

Part IV. The EBB and Flow of Common Law Strict Liability for Physical Harms
Chapter 22. Vicarious liability
Chapter 23. Common law strict liability
Chapter 24. Tort liability for defective products

Part V. Practicalities and Values
Chapter 25. Apportionment and settlement
Chapter 26. Damages
Chapter 27. Evaluating tort law

Part VI. Alternatives to Tort Law
Chapter 28. Workers' compensation
Chapter 29. Public compensation systems, including social security
Chapter 30. Private insurance solutions
Chapter 31. Evaluating injury systems: a discussion agenda

Part VII. Economic and Dignitary TORTS
Chapter 32. Communication of personally harmful impressions
Chapter 33. Communication of commercially harmful impressions to others
Chapter 34. Misrepresentation and other misdealings.

Includes index.