Question: A pandemic has spread out. The local authorities advised all transporters in and out of the city must sterilize every cabin and check every passenger

A pandemic has spread out. The local authorities advised all transporters in and out of the city must sterilize every cabin and check every passenger for any potential signs of infection.C was desperate to leave the city.After undergoing inspection by a train inspector, C was found to be displaying high fever. The inspector advised C to seek medical assistance immediately.

C was afraid that she would be quarantined thereby missing her train. C begged the inspector to allow her to aboard the train. Out of compassion, the inspector overlooked C's signs of infection. Weeks later, 26 passengers on the same train that C took suffered from the contagious disease and they believed that they had been infected because of the inspector's negligence.

Explain to the train passengers what need to be proved to establish a negligence.

Advise the passengers on how damages are assessed under the tort of negligence and who would be a better defendant instead of the inspector.

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