Personal Injury and the Law of Torts for Paralegals teaches students basic torts concepts along with the skills they need to work as paralegals in a torts-based practice. Through consistently clear writing, examples drawn from experience, and strong pedagogy, students develop a working understanding of their role as paralegals in personal injury cases. Thorough, and thoroughly teachable, Personal Injury and the Law of Torts for Paralegals features:
- logically organized substantive topics, beginning with an introduction to the concept of torts and moving through each element of negligence followed by medical malpractice, intentional torts, and Worker's Compensation
- complete coverage of the AAfPE's Model Tort Law syllabus
- practice-based topics that examine how to discover medical records, tort discovery, and litigation
- An Introduction to Medicine in the Appendix
- medical information relevant to personal injury is highlighted
- a guide to obtaining and understanding medical records
- a wealth of clear and accessible examples
- fact-based exercises that use real-life scenarios
- consistently pedagogy and chapter structure
- Chapter Objectives ;
- marginal definitions
- tables and figures
- case summaries
- ethics topics
- Chapter Summaries
- review questions
- Web links
- more medical records for students to practice reviewing and summarizing
- more medically-related websites, abbreviations, terms, and statutes
- significantly expanded medical malpractice chapter, with coverage of
- medical malpractice discovery
- investigation of the claim by both plaintiff and defendant
- pre-trial stages of medical malpractice
- the actual medical malpractice trial
- updated website references
- enhanced coverage of ethics
