Sentences with phrase «establish negligence on»

We know your rights after you have been injured and we can help you establish negligence on all responsible parties so that you are fully compensated for your injuries.

If we can establish negligence on the part of the driver or other parties, we can recover needed financial damages for you.

In order to collect a monetary recovery as a result of a personal injury case, Mississippi law mandates that a litigant establish negligence on the part of the culpable party.

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«Justice is asking the court to take these well - established rules to the logical next step and recognize that as a member of the class intended to be protected by Oregon's anti-cruelty statute, Justice may bring a negligence per se claim based on the standard of care in the anti-cruelty statute.»

[13] To recap, the basic rule of recovery for negligence is that the plaintiff must establish on a balance of probabilities that the defendant caused the plaintiff's injury on the «but for» test.

(2) Exceptionally, a plaintiff may succeed by showing that the defendant's conduct materially contributed to risk of the plaintiff's injury, where (a) the plaintiff has established that her loss would not have occurred «but for» the negligence of two or more tortfeasors, each possibly in fact responsible for the loss; and (b) the plaintiff, through no fault of her own, is unable to show that any one of the possible tortfeasors in fact was the necessary or «but for» cause of her injury, because each can point to one another as the possible «but for» cause of the injury, defeating a finding of causation on a balance of probabilities against anyone.

Nevertheless, if you or anyone you know has been in a truck accident, and you can prove negligence on the part of the truck driver and truck driver error is established, then you are entitled to receive certain damages and compensation.

We can conduct an investigation to determine whether medical malpractice occurred and work on establishing proof of this fact to hold the responsible doctor or hospital accountable for their negligence or wrongdoing.

At first instance HHJ Walton held that there was no negligence on the part of the defendant but decided that liability was established under AA 1971.

September 25, 2002 826 So.2 d 513 2002 Shopper, who slipped and fell on way to get store cart, established prima facie case of store's negligence.

These cases often are based on strict liability, which means that you do not need to show negligence by the defendant to establish liability.

The hospital was not able to show that there was no evidence upon which a trial judge, acting properly could have found causation established on the balance of probability, so the case was sent back for a new trial, only on the issue of whether the nurses» negligence was a cause of the child's injury.

We can help you establish liability on the part of the owner and fight for a fair payout so that you do not suffer financial stress due to someone else's negligence.

The test for establishing causation is the «but for» test, which requires the plaintiff to prove on the balance of probabilities that the defendant's negligence was necessary to bring about the injury.11 The «but - for» test has almost universal acceptance as an instrument for ascertaining causation.

It is a basic principle of the law of negligence that it is not sufficient for a plaintiff to merely demonstrate that a defendant had acted negligently; it must also establish that the defendant's negligence is what caused the plaintiff's injury.8 The onus lies on the plaintiff to establish causation as a probability and it is insufficient to merely demonstrate that the defendant's negligence caused the plaintiff injury.9 The proof of causation is a necessary element of negligence, as «a defendant in an action in negligence is not a wrongdoer at large: he [or she] is a wrongdoer only in respect of the damage which he [or she] actually causes to the plaintiff.

Negotiated a favorable settlement in a case involving alleged negligence in the construction of a highway, after discovering and establishing negligence and spoliation of evidence on the part of plaintiff's employer which caused the employer to substantially reduce their worker's compensation lien claim.

Although the Respondent was negligent in failing to install smoke alarms, the Appellants failed to establish, on a balance of probabilities, the Respondent's negligence caused the losses claimed.

However, if negligence is established on the part of the driver, the trucking company or the contractors, each person or entity that acted negligently may also hold some responsibility.

Claims based on negligence must establish that a manufacturer, distributor, or seller owed some responsibility or duty to you, the consumer, and breached that duty.

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Establishing Negligence — In order to recover compensation based on a defective drug claim, victims need to show that the drug company was negligent in some way.

Our litigation and dispute resolution team provides advice and representation in the High Court, Court of Appeal and Supreme Court in relation to company, commercial and contractual disputes; partnership and shareholder disputes; and professional negligence claims; We also have an established international arbitration practice focusing on trade, commerce and international investment treaties.

From at least the 1940s, the Court has distinguished between, on the one hand, simple negligence that is required to establish civil liability or guilt of provincial careless driving offences and, on the other hand, the significantly greater fault required for the criminal offence of dangerous driving (American Automobile Ins.

Recovery in a product liability case in Virginia is dependent on either proving negligence or establishing a case for breach of warranty.

Therefore, as a matter of common sense, I conclude that the plaintiff has established, on a balance of probabilities, that the defendants» negligence materially contributed to the injury.»

Often, proving liability is dependent on establishing negligence.

The Maine Supreme Court answered in the affirmative, not relying on the Restatement language, but based on the facts presented in the case, determining that liability could be established on a theory of simple negligence.

Without an expert opinion from another doctor to comment on whether or not the alleged offending doctor breached the standard of care, establishing a case for negligence against the offending doctor is very difficult.

[95] The plaintiff must establish on a balance of probabilities that the defendant's negligence caused or materially contributed to an injury.

[21] Sopinka J. went on to underline the importance of establishing a substantial connection between the injury and the defendant's negligence.

Are we back to a version of the pre-Resurfice situation where (so it was said), to succeed at all, a plaintiff had to get a finding that a defendant's negligence - related causation had been established on the balance of probability, regardless of the test that was used?

Establishing the fault of negligence and a breach of fiduciary duty often depends on established legal and industry standards to demonstrate a divergence therefrom and subsequent fault.

Although the custody and detention claims did fit into an established private law duty, it did not flow clearly from the claimed systemic negligence cause of action because of its focus on the ISU instead of specific police officers.

The facts in each case were simple and the law well - established, but the judgments provide a refreshing reminder of what constitutes negligence on the part of an individual.

Slatter J.A. noted, at para. 34, that the general test for causation in tort is that a plaintiff must generally establish on a balance of probabilities that the injury would not have occurred but for «the negligence of the defendant»: Fullowka v. Pinkerton's of Canada Ltd., 2010 SCC 5 (CanLII) at para. 93; Resurfice Corp. v. Hanke, 2007 SCC 7 (CanLII) at paras. 21 — 22; Athey v. Leonati, 1996 CanLII 183 (SCC), [1996] 3 S.C.R. 458 at para. 14; and Clements v. Clements, 2012 SCC 32 (CanLII) at paras. 6 — 8.