Sentences with phrase «more at fault»

The judge will divide the marital estate «equitably» without regard to why the divorce is happening or who is more at fault.

In approaching these problems, it's not about pointing fingers and deciding who is more at fault.

In Michigan uninsured drivers who are 50 percent or more at fault can not collect noneconomic damages in the event of an auto accident.

What makes this case particularly interesting is that the plaintiff was very seriously injured, but was more at fault.

Here, if the person bringing the lawsuit is 50 percent at fault, he or she can recover 50 percent of the damages, but can not recover anything if found to be 51 percent or more at fault.

Defendant found 50 % or more at fault is jointly and severally liable for economic damages, but not for noneconomic damages.

Defendant found 51 % or more at fault is jointly and severally liable for economic damages.

Any person that is 51 % or more at fault is jointly and severally liable for damages, which means that each of the other people who are responsible for your injury, are liable for all the damages awarded in a lawsuit if the others can not pay.

However, a Maine plaintiff who is found to be equally or more at fault than a defendant — 50 % or more at fault — may not recover at all.

There may be factors which you don't know, which played a role in the accident, and it may turn out that the other driver was more at fault than you.

If a jury finds you 50 percent or more at fault, your recovery will be barred altogether.

Under New Jersey comparative negligence law, you must prove that the other driver was more at fault than you for the accident in order to collect uninsured or underinsured motorist insurance benefits.

Usually, the motorists crossing the path of the other driver is more at fault for the accident.

If a driver is found to be 51 % or more at fault in an accident, the law will prevent that person from recovering even a penny for their injuries.

You can still file a personal injury lawsuit if you are partially to blame as long as another party was more at fault than you.

Just like general tort law, medical malpractice litigation spreads the costs of negligence to the party more at fault for the injury, and the party more likely to be able to pay.

If the jury had determined the plaintiff was 51 percent or more at fault, she would not be able to recover anything.

Under this statute, a person can only recover compensation from an accident if he or she is not more at fault for the crash than the others who are involved.

If you are 50 percent or more at fault, you can not recover accident damages.

Property damage is covered up to $ 1,000 if you are 50 % or more at fault in an accident which causes damage to another person's car that is not covered by insurance.

Comparative negligence does not bar you from recovering financial damages, but someone else does need to be more at fault than you are.

In Virginia, if you are in any way responsible for causing the accident, you can not recover from another driver, even if that person was more at fault than you were.

In a 50/50 state, a party seeking compensation for damages isn't allowed to recover anything if he or she is determined to be 50 percent or more at fault for an accident.

In states that use a modified comparative fault rule, the plaintiff will not receive any portion of the payout if he is equally or more at fault for the sustained damages.

In other words, the person who caused, or is more at fault for causing, an individual to sustain injuries as the result of an automobile collision would be «at fault.»

As you can tell from the example provided above, the issue of who is more at fault is going to be hotly contested in any truck accident lawsuit.

Iowa law allows you to file a personal injury lawsuit after a truck accident case as long as you were not more at fault than the defendant for causing the crash.

This makes it critical to hire a personal injury attorney who can prove that the other party was more at fault for your accident than you were.

Under this rule, an injured litigant can not recover if she is 51 percent or more at fault for her own injuries, but she can recover damages if she is 50 percent or less at fault.

If the defendant can show that the plaintiff is 51 percent or more at fault for their injuries, the plaintiff, injured person, will be barred from recovering compensation.

When one driver fails to yield to the right of way, their responsibility for causing the accident is increased so that they may be deemed more at fault than the other individual and must pay for their resulting damages.

This rule means you can not receive damages if you were 50 percent or more at fault in an accident.

A plaintiff who is 50 % or more at fault is barred from recovery.

Anne Hathaway as White Queen: I think the make - up (white hair, dark eyes) and weird dialogue is more at fault than Hathaway's effort.

It's hard to say who's more at fault, the writers or the director who certainly gets into the act in a big way.

If growth resumes and the deficit reduction programme remains on course, David Cameron will have every reason to expect Labour's performance before 2010 to be thought to be more at fault.

You make some fair points but Wenger ris far more at fault on so much more than you believe.

I support Arsenal and I feel there is more at fault than the manager, if anything the manager is hiding a lot of the faults from the fans by taking a lot of the blame for the owners choices.

I honestly believe there is more at fault at Arsenal than just the manager and some of those faults will hinder any future manager like they are hindering Wenger, imagine if we get your dream manager and the board do not buy his targets, how will you feel then?

But as the offseason has unfolded, it's become apparent that things were never going to be that easy — no matter whose side is more at fault here.

Of course, it's not like the UFC is more at fault than any other corporation.

It seems to me we Christians have failed to live like Jesus and are more at fault than we want to admit.

Society is more at fault than he is.

Not exact matches

A seemingly good idea with flaws can cause the entire foundation to collapse, while a questionable idea with more merits than faults might be abandoned despite having a real shot at success.

Benjamin Brafman, a lawyer for Mr. Weinstein, said in a statement, «While Mr. Weinstein's behavior was not without fault, there certainly was no criminality, and at the end of the inquiry it will be clear that Harvey Weinstein promoted more women to key executive positions than any other industry leader.»

The more incompetently and painfully Obama implements the sequester, the worse spending cuts seem as an idea and Republicans are at fault for every inconvenience.

As Gertrude Himmelfarb has written, in place of the «confession (la Augustine) of one's own faults and sins, it is today «more often a «confession» of the faults and sins of others — of parents, lovers, friends, associates, or, if need be, of society at large.»

It turned out that perhaps I was at fault rather than Percy, whom I wanted to be more respectable and hopeful than he is willing to be.

In view of these concerns, some have advocated resurrecting the fault laws, or at least enacting more restrictive laws to replace the no - fault laws.

It's hopeless, at least at this time, as I gave it one more try even using «Biship Tutu's methods for reconciliation,» to be met with it's «my fault for damaging our relationship by bringing up the past» (what she and her pastor husband did, and have been doing to anger and ruin my reputation with my entire family for the past 30 years).