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Assault, Battery and Intentional Torts - EKG Lawyers

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Assault, Battery and Intentional Torts - EKG Lawyers

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  1. Assault, Battery and Intentional Torts

  2. Types of Intentional Torts • A tort is a civil wrong that causes harm to another person. • Torts include a wide variety of actions, and the legal field of torts is split up into many subcategories. • Typical intentional torts are: battery, assault,false imprisonment, fraud,intentional infliction of emotional distress,defamation, invasion of privacy,trespass, and conversion.

  3. Assault and Battery • Assault is an intentional attempt or threat to inflict injury that places another person in fear of imminent bodily harm. • Battery, on the other hand, is the intentional touching of the another person's in a harmful or offensive way, without consent.

  4. Battery in Special Situations • These situations can range from medical situations to sports to domestic violence. • A medical battery can occur if a doctor performs a non-emergency procedure without obtaining consent first. • This would be a medical battery because it would be an unauthorized touching of the plaintiff's person.

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