What impact did the Industrial Revolution have on workers' compensation?
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Workers' compensation systems arose out of the industrial revolution of the nineteenth century. Hard physical labor with machines and equipment designed to perform tasks without regard for the protection of operators resulted in numerous injuries. The tort system of the time was ill-equipped, from the employee's standpoint at least, to handle the medical expenses and lost wages of injured workers. Several common law defenses were available to the employer, such as contributory negligence, assumption of risk, and the fellow-servant rule (which rendered an employer nonliable for an injury inflicted upon an employee through the negligence of a fellow employee, but made every employee liable to his or her fellow workers for the employee's own negligence). Because of these defenses and the employer's superior financial position, injured workers had little chance to obtain compensation through the courts.
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The conclusion of an internal legal memorandum should be:
a. Your opinion of how to resolve the issues b. Your attorney's opinion of how to resolve the issues c. A restatement of the facts of the case d. Written informally
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Identify the four invasion of privacy torts
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