Tort: Damage Perpetrated by People - נזקי אדם

Payment for causing harm

Damage done by human beings is a Central (Av) form of damage, under the "Maveh" heading: Bava Kama 2a, 3b

A person is always responsible to avoid any situation in which [s]he could harm others: Bava Kama 4a-b

People are always considered forewarned as a threat to harm others, whether awake or asleep: Ketuvot 35a, 38a; Bava Kama 3b, 4a, 15b

The off-shoot forms of damage by human beings (see examples below) are liable under the same legislation as the central forms of damage by human beings: Bava Kama 3b

Whether humans pay extra "Kofer" compensation: Bava Kama 4a

Humans pay for depreciation of the damaged entity, as well as pain, medication, lost wages and humiliation: Bava Kama 4a, 5b

Humans paying for damages, or damages plus pain, medical treatment, lost wages and humiliation, for sub-categories of the central tort of damaging others: Bava Kama 4b

Liability where five people are sitting on a bench, and a sixth comes and sits on it, breaking it, and it would [not] have broken without him: Bava Kama 10b

Liability where ten people strike an individual, at the same time or separately, and he dies: Bava Kama 10b

The secondary results of a person's actions are considered to be his direct actions, re liability: Bava Kama 3b, 10b

If one empties a cistern or trap into a permitted public area, and an individual is hurt from the resultant moving materials, is this harm considered to be caused by human force?: Bava Kama 6a

Damage done from his phlegm/mucous: Bava Kama 3b

Distinguishing between the rules for damage done to an animal and those for damage done to another human: Ketuvot 35a-b, 38a; Bava Kama 4b

Damage done via inaction, where he is supposed to guard another's property: Bava Kama 4b