Article 106 of the General Principles of the Civil Law Citizens and legal persons who violate contracts or fail to perform other obligations shall bear civil liability. Citizens and legal persons who infringe upon the property of the state or the collective or the property or person of others due to their faults shall bear civil liability.
Article 110 Where a citizen or legal person who bears civil liability needs to be investigated for administrative responsibility, it shall be investigated for administrative responsibility; If the case constitutes a crime, the legal representative of a citizen or legal person shall be investigated for criminal responsibility according to law.
Tort liability law
Article 2 Whoever infringes upon civil rights and interests shall bear tort liability in accordance with this Law.
The civil rights and interests mentioned in this Law include personal rights and property rights such as the right to life, health, name, reputation, honor, portrait, privacy, marital autonomy, guardianship, ownership, usufructuary right, security right, copyright, patent right, trademark exclusive right, discovery right, stock right and inheritance right.
Article 3 The infringed party has the right to request the infringer to bear the tort liability.
Article 4 Where an infringer should bear administrative or criminal responsibility for the same act, it shall not affect the tort liability according to law.
If the property of the infringer is insufficient to pay for the same act, the infringer shall bear the tort liability first.
Article 16 Anyone who infringes upon others and causes personal injury shall pay compensation for medical expenses, nursing expenses, transportation expenses and other reasonable expenses for treatment and rehabilitation, as well as the income reduced due to missed work. If it causes disability, it shall also compensate the disabled for living AIDS and disability compensation. If death is caused, funeral expenses and death compensation shall also be paid.
Seventeenth the same tort caused many deaths, can determine the same amount of death compensation.
Article 18 If an infringer dies, his close relatives have the right to request the infringer to bear tort liability. Where the infringed party is a unit, and the unit is divided or merged, the right-bearing unit has the right to request the infringer to bear tort liability.
If the infringed dies, the person who paid the reasonable expenses such as medical expenses and funeral expenses of the infringed has the right to claim compensation from the infringed, unless the infringed has paid the expenses.