Intentional Torts: Intentional invasion of person or property. Tort liability indicates that someone is held accountable for wrong actions (other than under contract.).Torts are tied to civil court claims. Put simply, negligence has four elements: duty of care, breach of duty of care, causation, and damages. Negligence is the failure to behave with the level of care that a reasonable person would have exercised under the same circumstances. In a negligence case, the plaintiff must show duty, breach, causation, and harm. Even absent SL, maybe liability for negligence or intentional tort. Tepper for Defendant and Respondent. There are four elements of a negligence case that must be proven for a lawsuit to be successful. There is no sufficiently compelling reason to deviate from the usual rules which we apply in the regular tort or contract law system.