Sentences with phrase «in a negligence action following»

In a negligence action following the plaintiff's collision with an ambulance, the volunteer driver's company was an instrumentality of the state and, thus, exempt from liability arising from its contract with Frederick County.

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A car or other vehicle's failure to follow any of these provisions about right - of - way can constitute negligence in a personal injury action by a motorcyclist.

Under Canadian common law, in order to succeed in an action for negligence (including for a failure to warn), a plaintiff must establish the following five elements:

The LAA announced in its headline intentions document in January 2017, that contracts in the following areas of law would be awarded to organisations meeting its suitability tests and able to meet quality standards: Family; Housing, Debt and Welfare Benefits; Immigration & Asylum (including IRCs); Claims against Public Authorities (currently known as «Actions Against the Police etc»); Community Care; Clinical Negligence; Mental Health; and Public Law.

Served as second - chair trial counsel and secured defense verdict following seven - week jury trial in the California Superior Court for the County of Orange of action for strict and negligent products liability and negligence based on allegations of design defects, manufacturing defects, and warning defects.

Therefore, on December 15, 2011, the plaintiff commenced an action against his landlord in the Superior Court of Justice for negligence and for failure to follow its duties under the Occupier's Liability Act.

When considering a clinical negligence action relating to acquiring MRSA in hospital it is important that you are able to show the following:

Lord Justice Aikens adopted the same analysis: «Before holding that a person has acted negligently so as to be liable in an action for negligence, the court must be satisfied that a reasonable person in the position of the defendant (ie the person who caused the accident) would contemplate that injury is likely to follow from his acts or omissions.

They are as follows: (1) The death must have been caused by another's negligence, i.e., it must be showed that the negligent person was at fault for the death; (2) if the deceased was alive, he or she would have been entitled to recover damages from the at fault party; and (3) the party or beneficiaries must meet the legal requirements to be allowed recovery of damages in the Wrongful Death action.