Discuss the extent of business negligence liability by identifying and clearly defining the relevant law(s), either defining a legal doctrine, provisions of law, or elements of a specific cause of action.

You are the manager of a highly successful local business. The small business society in your community asks you to write a paper for their monthly publication. In the featured article, you will be discussing, “How Important Tort Liability is to Business.” Remember that, for most torts, injured persons can bring actions against businesses as well as against individuals. Using your professional or personal experience in the business world, discuss the following in your article: Discuss the extent of business negligence liability by identifying and clearly defining the relevant law(s), either defining a legal doctrine, provisions of law, or elements of a specific cause of action. (intentional infliction of emotional distress – claim of racial insults) Apply facts from your experience to the applicable law, doctrine, or cause of action studied. (Employee A receives a voicemail from customer with racial slurs for employee B. Employee A sends voicemail to employee B. Employee A explains to employee B why they believe the customer was justified in the racial hate speech because of their geographical location and upbringing. Employee B claims there is intentional infliction of emotional distress. Employee A was eventually was written up on corrective action, received sensitivity training and kept her job. Employee B dropped the claim. Clearly summarize lessons learned from the week as they apply to your fact pattern and make links to the readings and/or module.Then make a list of suggestions for minimizing business tort liability, in which you include new thoughts or ideas based on the module information. This is your reflection/insight, which logically would flow from each information point presented. Be sure to complete all the bulleted points above. In the area of torts, many causes of action are comprised of “elements.” Define each element and apply facts from your situation to the law or elements. For instance, if you write about a situation involving intentional infliction of emotional distress, you would define negligence stating, The tort of intentional infliction of emotional distress has four elements: (1) the defendant must act intentionally or recklessly; (2) the defendant’s conduct must be extreme and outrageous; and (3) the conduct must be the cause (4) of severe emotional distress. Your well-written paper should be three to four pages in length, not including the title or references pages. Include a minimum of three credible sources

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