Sentences with phrase «found negligent»

If you happen to be found negligent in some manner down the road, a lawyer is going to love that you have paid off property, but if you had high debt and still cash flow well, you would not be a likely target.

But there are only rare cases in which this is true, when a landlord or the owner of a building is found negligent in a way that has resulted in damages or loss of goods, or an injury to a visitor to your home.

It is sometimes overshadowed by property coverage, but it can sure save you in situations where you are found negligent for property losses or injuries to others at and around your rented home.

But those where you can in some way be found negligent can spell financial trouble.

You may be found negligent for not repairing the handrail and therefore be legally responsible to pay for the injured person's medical bills and lost wages.

If a tree collapses and destroys a neighbor's home or personal property, the renter might be found negligent if they hadn't notified the property owner.

Judgment is entered against you if you're found negligent.

You may be found negligent and, therefore, be legally responsible to pay for the injured person's medical bill and lost wages.

You can be sued and found negligent if a visitor is injured at your home, and the liability coverage in renters insurance would pay your legal fees.

Uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage protect you in circumstances where the other driver is found negligent in the accident but does not carry adequate liability insurance to cover your damages.

Liability coverage pays for the bodily injury or property damage to third parties in the event that you are found negligent in a covered accident.

If you're found negligent in this situation your property damage liability coverage would pay for the dog's vet's bills.

Fiduciary Liability Insurance provides defense and coverage in the event your business is found negligent in a fiduciary liability lawsuit.

As an example, accountants may be found negligent for advising a client on tax matters that in turn result in a penalty or additional taxes.

If a tasker is injured and the client is found negligent, the client's renters insurance policy will cover the tasker's medical bill.

With insurance, you purchase certain coverage's as protection in event you (the insured) suffer loss or damage or are found negligent for damage caused to a third party.

At trial the defendants (the school authorities) were found negligent, as was the plaintiff, the division of liability being eighty per cent to the defendants and twenty per cent to the plaintiff.

In Power v. Carroll (2007), 222 O.A.C. 205 (C.A.), a thoracic surgeon was found negligent in performing a mediastinoscopy, an investigative procedure used to assess the stage of lung cancer.

A physician found negligent in treating a newborn after two abnormal test results by ordering a screening test, rather than a diagnostic test, appealed on the basis the trial judge failed to apply the «respectable minority principle.»

The officer was found negligent at trial and damages of just over $ 330,000 were assessed.

If the dog owner breaches that duty and harm results, he or she can be found negligent and have legal responsibility to pay damages for the injuries.

The person who is found negligent in a boating accident could face civil liability, criminal liability, or both.

Governments and municipalities can also be found negligent if they have failed to keep a road, sidewalk or building safe and it has caused your injuries.

An injury is only considered claimable if the doctor operating on the mother and the baby is found negligent of taking necessary steps during childbirth.

For example, if they failed to repair or remove the hazard that caused your injury in a reasonable amount of time, they could be found negligent.

Drivers are therefore more likely to be found negligent in accidents involving pedestrians.

A day - care facility itself may be found negligent for failure to adequately staff the center with a safe supervisor - child ratio, preventing the possibility of adequate supervision of children while they are eating.

For example, if the truck driver was driving fatigued because of an unreasonable deadline, both the driver and the trucking company could be found negligent: the driver for choosing to stay on the road and drive drowsy and the trucking company for pressuring the driver to do so.

In some cases, the supplier of the alcohol may be found negligent as well.

If these steps are not taken and a dog attacks, the owner can be found negligent.

If the driver was operating the snowmobile while impaired, driving at excessive speeds or recklessly, or did not properly maintain the machine, he or she might well be found negligent.

Where one is driving according to street signs and abiding by the speed limit, they may still be found negligent if the courts find that their speed was reckless given the road conditions.

A pedestrian must always act defensively on their own behalf and can be found negligent when they dismiss signals telling them when to cross an intersection, refuse to use crosswalks, and leap into heavy traffic at will.

Motorists who injure pedestrians while exiting their driveways may be found negligent depending upon the circumstances of the accident.

It is nearly impossible to have an accident involving two cars without one of the drivers being found negligent in one way or another.

When a culpable party participates in those forbidden activities and an injury results, they can more easily be found negligent.

Following a two - day trial with expert engineering evidence, the Honorable Mr. Deputy Judge Crouchman determined that «it was clear that [the defendant welder] was to blame and, accordingly, [he] must be found negligent for failing to complete his work in a good and workmanlike manner.»

Specifically, the park argued — and the court agreed — that in order to be found negligent, there must have been some evidence presented that the park's management knew the handrail was in poor condition.

Big commercial trucks are also famously difficult to bring to a stop, so any truck driver who chooses to blow an intersection in order to save time is going to be found negligent for his or her actions.

In the case, Nielsen v. Bell, the court ultimately concluded that a four - year - old child can not, as a matter of law, be found negligent for his own actions.

To be found negligent, the owner of a car must have either been in control of the car at the time of the accident or have given express or implied consent to the operator's use of the car.]

If we can prove that they knew you could be harmed by performing your duties and put you in that situation anyway, they could be found negligent.

If the defendant is found negligent, there are a variety of damages they may have to pay, some of which are easier to calculate than others.

Zagel determined that even though GSK can not be held strictly liable for the suicide, it could be found negligent.

If the plaintiff is found negligent, the damages will be reduced according to the percentage of the plaintiff's negligence.

A pool owner who is found negligent can then be held responsible for compensating accident victims who suffer injuries that are caused by the dangerous diving board conditions.

But in order to be found negligent, the owner must have failed to warn visitors of potential dangers or failed to remedy these dangers in a timely manner.

There are situations where the driver was driving defensively and will not be found negligent and liable for the accident.

It is only when the tortfeasor fails to act reasonably that the tortfeasor can be found negligent under the law.

If he or she fails to regularly inspect the board for loose bolts or sharp edges, fails to make sure railings are secured and non-slip material is present on the board, fails to remove oily substances from the board or fails to ensure that there is sufficient water underneath the diving board, then the pool owner is likely to be found negligent.