Nursing homes' responsibility for injuries caused by patients and intruders. (column)

A law school cliche? is that "A students become law professors, B students become judges, and C students become rich." But if the rich C students are dozing off in classes like Jurisprudence and Legal Ethics, they're getting rich because they paid attention to their Torts class.

A tort is a civil wrong, other than a breach of contract, for which the court will find a remedy. Some experts in the field have written that "Torts consist of breach of duties fixed and imposed upon the parties by the law itself, without regard to their consent to assume them, or their efforts to evade them." For instance, when a car driver goes down the street, he has the obligaton ...