ABSTRACT
Tort law falls into three main categories – intentional torts, negligence, and strict liability. Intentional torts are just what they sound like – the person, or "tortfeasor," intended to cause the other person harm. Torts in negligence take many forms but they all share the same four elements: duty, breach, causation, and damages. Whether an intentional tort such as battery, or negligence, the idea is there could be liability for exposing workers to toxic chemicals. Under strict liability, a person engaged in certain inherently dangerous activities must take every precaution necessary to avoid injuring someone. Proximate cause occurs where the defendant sets in motion a foreseeable chain of events between his actions and plaintiff's harm. The intervening act of the ambulance accident is the "but for" cause of the burn injury, but because such an event is foreseeable, the proximate cause remains with the defendant who put the whole thing in motion.
