Suppose that a car stalls on the railroad tracks because its carburetor is badly maintained. A train collides with the car because the train’s brakes are badly maintained. What is the proximate cause of the accident? Who had the "last clear chance" to avoid the accident? Does the answer to the first question affect the answer to the second question?

Suppose that B’s faulty driving causes an accident that injures driver A. A was not at fault in her driving, but she was not wearing her seat belt, and this fact aggravated her personal injury. Discuss liability under the rules of simple negligence, negligence with a defense of contributory negligence, and comparative negligence.

For purposes of the theory of accidents, how would you define the activity level of a railroad? An airline? For some activities, the level relevant to the probability of an accident is difficult to define. Can you define an activity level relevant to a homeowner’s maintenance of her front steps? A pharmaceutical company’s sale of a drug with dangerous side effects?

Acompany using the perpetual inventory system purchased inventory worth $540,000 on account with credit terms of 2/15, n/45. defective inventory of $40,000 was returned 2 days later, and the accounts were appropriately adjusted. if the company paid the invoice 20 days later, the journal entry to record the payment would be

(05.04 mc) a 2012 report from the u. s. surgeon general stated: "another common practice is strategically locating tobacco-related marketing materials where young children will be exposed to them. tobacco industry executives acknowledge that products and advertising should be placed at eye level (pollay 2007), but in california, 48% of stores had at least one cigarette marketing item at or below 3 feet from the floor (feighery et al. 2001)." it was also noted that 25% of cigarette displays were next to candy. in addition, a national study found that about one-third of the stores had tobacco ads at low heights. after california banned counter displays, some stores place cigarettes in transparent displays so product brands could still be seen. why did some stores use transparent units to display the cigarettes? (3 points) to comply with the new rules while still encouraging cigarette purchases via visual exposure to ensure children and minors are not exposed to cigarettes and their eye-catching packaging to minimize exposure to humidity, extending the shelf life of the cigarettes' tobacco to reduce the occurrence of shoplifting, since cigarettes are high-revenue items

Agovernment receives a gift of cash and investments with a fair value of $200,000. the donor specified that the earnings from the gift must be used to beautify city-owned parks and the principal must be re-invested. the $200,000 gift should be accounted for in which of the following funds? a) general fund b) private-purpose trust fund c) agency fund d) permanent fund