In a Tort Action That Survives the Death of the Victim

question 5

True/False

In a tort action that survives the death of the victim (from a cause other than the commission of that tort), the survival action is a new action independent of the one the decedent would have had if he or she had survived.

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Definitions:

Standard Deviation

A metric indicating the degree of spread or variability among values in a collection.

Variation

The occurrence of an organism, trait, or gene in more than one form, leading to diversity within a population.

Statistic

A numerical datum or piece of data derived from a study of a large quantity of numerical data, used for analyzing features of that population.

p < .05

A statistical term indicating that the probability of the observed data, or more extreme, under the null hypothesis is less than 5%, suggesting the results are statistically significant.