Week 2 Legal Assignment

Negligent Tort

Visit the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission website. Click on “Recalls.” Choose one product that has been recalled.

1. Describe the product subject to recall, including the recall date, recall number, and the reason for the recall.
2. Analyze whether the manufacturer would be liable for negligence if the product had not been recalled and had caused harm to a consumer.
3. Discusses the following in relation to the product recall: 
4. Duty of Care
5. Standard of Care
6. Breach of the Duty of Care
7. Actual Causation
8. Proximate Causation
9. Actual Injury
10. Defenses to Negligence
11. Analyze and apply a relevant consumer protection statute identified under “Consumer Protection” in Chapter 8 of your text in conjunction with the product recall that you have identified. Must address the topic with critical thought.

Submit a four- to five-page paper (not including title and reference pages). Your paper must be formatted according to APA style as outlined in the approved APA style guide and must cite at least three scholarly sources in addition to the textbook

Carefully review the Grading Rubric for the criteria that will be used to evaluate your assignment

Please be sure to include an abstract and use third person only. 

Link to the article: https://www.cpsc.gov/