An elderly person who is injured by a worker, employee or agent of a home, hospital or similar facility may be entitled to compensation under the Welfare and Institutions Code and
general negligence principles of law.
Not exact matches
a) The substantive law and
general principles of
negligence are the same.
The owner's responsibility is defined by
general principles of personal injury law, referred to as
negligence in the law.
In deciding that the plaintiff was both foreseeable and proximate to the defendants, Handrigan J. cited two other wills cases: Wilhelm v. Hickson and White v. Jones for the
general principle that disappointed beneficiaries, even if unknown personally to a party who drafts a will, are sufficiently proximate to the will drafter to be able to succeed in
negligence against the will drafter in certain circumstances (Wilhelm was a case about misidentification of the owner of property; White was about undue delay in execution).
Carolyne I take issue with what you wrote out of the
general principle that you're engaging in drafting which is not your area of expertise and is a
negligence action waiting to happen.