Sentences with phrase «alleging negligence led»

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Two weeks ago, the Montclair Board of Education agreed to pay Ryne's family $ 2.8 million to settle a 2009 negligence lawsuit alleging the school's decision to let their son back on the field led to the 16 - year - old's death.

The woman who accused the now - former commissioner for the Erie County Department of Social Services of raping her at an Albany hotel has filed court documents claiming the county's negligence led to the alleged sexual assault.

Doctors failing to order necessary medical testing is the leading diagnostic error, according to one organization studying almost 200 alleged cases of negligence.

Justice Lederman commented at paragraph 40 that «The course of Dr. Harvey's conduct, beginning with lies, and leading ultimately to the falsification of evidence, was done for the purpose of hiding his alleged negligence and also for the purpose of creating doubt in the plaintiffs» minds about the wisdom of bringing a claim.»

Essentially, the court's opinion was that allowing a plaintiff to re-file after a delay caused by a failure to prosecute could lead to an abuse of the system in which cases may not be decided for decades after the alleged negligence occurred.

Certain steps that were taken in the action led the trial judge to conclude that defence counsel had a proper basis for alleging negligence on the part of the third party and the trial judge accepted that the third party, or her counsel, had employed tactics amounting to an attempt to make an end run around the defendant.