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Six example sentences with tort, each labelled with its topic.
A slippery lobby floor and a broken wrist is the classic tort a first year student meets in September.
Law
The firm carries insurance against tort claims because one badly assembled shelf can cost more than a year of profit.
Business
The neighbors filed a tort suit after the plant's runoff killed their orchard, seeking the cost of replanting.
Environment
Malpractice is a tort, so the patient must show that the surgeon's care fell below what a competent colleague would have given.
Medicine
Economists treat a tort as a pricing problem, asking what level of damages makes a factory take exactly the right care.
Economics
Courts are still deciding whether a self-driving car's crash is a tort for which the maker or the dozing owner must pay damages.
Technology
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