Sentences with phrase «civil negligence»

However, the lack of a criminal conviction is not a bar to recovery under civil negligence.

However, that is not the case because the legal standards for criminal negligence and civil negligence differ.

Although insurance companies may pay for some of the damage sustained in a serious accident, unfortunately, accident victims often need to bring civil negligence suits when the insurance company's offer is insufficient.

Truck Driver Responsibility in New Mexico In understanding civil negligence claims against truck drivers, it is important for victims and their families to understand which entities are actually at fault.

It not only warns us that our violation of the Move Over law can be enough to keep a negligence lawsuit against alive, but also that traffic ticket violations can be used against us in a different legal arena entirely: civil negligence cases.

The plaintiff will now bring his action to the Supreme Court under civil negligence liability attempting to prove the college was negligent in failing to protect him from the hazing — a «reasonably foreseeable» danger.

It sounds like an episode of Law & Order, but a woman who was raped in the emergency room of Gaston Memorial Hospital in Gastonia, North Carolina (NC), is now pursuing civil negligence claims against the doctors and nurses she says failed to protect her from her attacker.

This week, Broward (Florida) Circuit Judge Richard Eadea expanded the traditional limits of liability in injuries caused by texting in another way, when he granted the plaintiff's motion to allow punitive damages in a civil negligence suit.

Sometimes, however, an injured employee may be able to pursue both a workers» compensation claim and a civil negligence lawsuit.

Later, the plaintiff filed a civil negligence claim against the defendant, claiming that the defendant's negligence resulted in his injuries.

If you or a loved one has been a victim of a hit - and - run accident, you may consider bringing a civil negligence suit against the culpable party.

Many times, individuals can be held liable under a civil negligence theory or given a citation for failing to act accordingly during dangerous conditions.

And liability protection is also important, because just like anyone else living in any kind of home, you might end up facing a civil negligence case stemming from an accident or other event that occurs at your loft or other rented home from something you or a family member did, or even from something you might have had nothing to do with other than the fact that it happened inside your rented dwelling.