Description
Book SynopsisRICHARD N. JEFFRIES is a semi-retired civil litigation personal injury attorney with 37 years of experience. His areas of practice included automobile, asbestos, construction, insurance coverage issues (declaratory judgment (DJ) actions and coverage opinions), premises liability, products liability, medical malpractice, legal malpractice, and other areas of professional negligence. He is an adjunct professor at Minnesota State University in Moorhead, Minnesota, teaching personal injury law in the paralegal studies program. He was a speaker at numerous bar association continuing legal education (CLE) seminars and produced several publications for his peers. These publications were written on the subjects of legal malpractice, statutes of limitation, and issues concerning an insurance carrier's duty to defend and indemnify. He has been a lecturer for various paralegal organizations. He was given the honor of being appointed by the Center for International Legal Studies to be a Senior
Table of Contents
1. Introduction to Personal Injury Torts
2. Negligence: Duty and Breach of Duty
3. Negligence: Causation
4. Negligence: Damages
5. Special Duties & Other Negligence Issues
6. Defenses to Negligence
7. Intentional Torts to the Person
8. Torts to Property
9. Strict Liability
10. Products Liability
11. Defamation, Invasion of Privacy and Other Miscellaneous Torts
12. Locating and Obtaining Medical Records: A Gold Mine or a Mine Field
13. Reviewing and Summarizing Medical Records
14. Third-Party Liability Insurance
15. First-Party Insurance Coverage
Appendix 1 - General
Appendix 2 - Medical
Appendix 3 - Insurance
