Business management liability scenario

 

Business management liability scenario

The following is a Business management liability scenario. Widget’s, Inc., a fictional company, has a flourishing lawncare business. The business has two full-time employees who have been with the company for five years. All employees are trained on using the lawn equipment and have signed a waiver-of-liability contract limiting liability for the company. The owner, Brian, told his employees not to worry—that the company would protect them if they got hurt.

One employee, Lori, was on the job cutting a lawn. Lori was riding a mower, a Ferrari 2000, which was three years old and in good working condition. The step-up on the mower had writing on it with a warning sticker that read, “Replace the sandpaper liner for traction every three years due to normal wear and tear.”  It was replaced every three years. Lori stepped down off the rider, slipped because of moisture from the grass, and severed her pinky toe on the mower blade.

When she fell to the ground, the mower continued through the grass and proceeded by itself to cut and mulch a neighbor’s prize roses. Peta, the neighbor, was preparing for a rose competition with a potential grand prize of $10,000.

Business management liability scenario

Write a 2-3 page paper answering the questions below. Remember to identify and explain the law and then justify your answers to the questions pursuant to the scenario:

  1. Pursuant to contract law, is the waiver of liability legal and do Brian’s verbal assurances become part of the contract? Why or why not?
  2. Does Peta have a product liability case against the mower manufacturer Ferrari for a design defect, manufacturing defect, or failure-to-warn defect?
  3. Does Lori have a claim for her injuries and can she recover pain and suffering damages or worker’s compensation?

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

  • This course requires the use of Strayer Writing Standards. For assistance and information, please refer to the Strayer Writing Standards link in the left-hand menu of your course.
  • Typed, double-spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with 1-inch margins on all sides.
  • Include a cover page with your name and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcome associated with this assignment is as follows:

 

Assignment 2

  • You must complete two ethnographic film assignment worth 20 points each.  To do this you must watch two of the following documentary videos and prepare a report that describes the main points and most interesting parts of the film, and answers all of the questions about the video as specified below under “video questions2010” link.

    You must watch 2 of the videos here.  there are links to three of the videos below (Fast Runner, Ten Canoes, Dead Birds) , to watch for free online, but the others are easily available online through different sources (Amazon Prime, Netflix, Hulu, many others).  I cant provide links to each possible video because they change each semester, and many of you have sources that I cant access.  Use your skills on the internet to find a streaming site and watch two of these.  You need to watch two of them and submit a separate video assignment for each one — submit both Ethnographic Film assignments 1 & 2. Write a short essay with the answers to the video questions embedded into your essay (number them). Save this as an msWord document file or pdf file and then submit below.  Here are the questions you must answer in your essay to get credit for the ethnographic film assignment.

Assignment 3

The New Safety Program 

At first glance, a dot-com company is one of the last places you’d expect to find potential safety and health hazards—or so the owners of LearnInMotion.com thought. There’s no danger of moving machinery, no high-pressure lines, no cutting or heavy lifting, and certainly no forklift trucks. However, there are safety and health problems.

A word document containing your responses to the four (3) questions occurring at the end of the case study.

  1. How should the firm go about identifying hazardous conditions that should be rectified? Use checklists such as those in Figures 16-6 and 16-8 to list at least 10 possible dry cleaning store hazardous conditions.
  2. Would it be advisable for the firm to set up a procedure for screening out accident-prone individuals? How should they do so?
  3. How would you suggest the Carters get all employees to behave more safely at work? Also, how would you advise them to get those who should be wearing goggles to do so?