Sentences with phrase «comparative fault into»

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The Southern District of Florida reduced the non-economic damages in the case to $ 5 million before the deceased woman's comparative fault was taken into account.

When a Florida resident gets into a car accident, several factors can affect the insurance claims and lawsuits that might result, including Florida's status as a no - fault state, how long drivers have to file court cases after a crash (statute of limitations), and Florida's «pure» comparative fault rule.

You may also run into issues such as comparative negligence, which involves percentages of fault being assigned to both parties.

States using a comparative negligence system assign a percentage of fault to each party, and this is where it breaks into three schools of thought because states like to make things complicated:

Victims bringing a claim still need to prove certain elements of their case (such as foreseeability), but unlike other types of cases, the victim's comparative fault does not come into play.