Sentences with phrase «multiple defendants caused»
Joint and several liability is a doctrine that permits a plaintiff who is able to show that multiple defendants caused her injury to recover the full amount from any one of them.
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«This is going to cause great uncertainty going forward in complex litigation against multiple defendants in federal courts and in state cases with plaintiffs in one state and a defendant in another state.»
The plaintiff had a common law relationship with the former husband of the defendant, and the defendant acknowledged looking at the plaintiff's bank information without just cause or reason on multiple occasions.
In Clements v. Clements,, 2012 SCC 32, the Supreme Court of Canada re-affirmed the primacy of the «but for» test in proving causation and confined the alternate «material contribution» test to cases involving multiple negligent defendants where it is not possible to prove which one caused the injury.
$ 80,000 — Dog bite results in multiple injuries (Sep 2016) The Defendant's dog chased the Plaintiff into her garage and attacked her, causing multiple wounds to her knee, thigh, calf and arm.
A $ 700,000 settlement for a client who claimed that the defendant neurosurgeon's negligence caused or substantially contributed to a three - year delay in the diagnosis of the plaintiff's multiple sclerosis, during which time the plaintiff's MS progressed untreated.
In cases where there are multiple defendants, the Court of Appeal directs that a jury must first consider whether the collective negligence caused the plaintiff's injuries.
This decision should resolve the unfair conundrum that multiple defendants may be negligent but each could avoid liability by suggesting that the negligence of each other caused the injury.
For example, while no one particular defendant's negligence alone may be sufficient to have caused the plaintiff's injuries, the collective negligence of multiple defendants may have caused the plaintiff's injuries.
Some stakeholders GAO interviewed said that the increase in 2011 was most likely influenced by the anticipation of changes in the 2011 Leahy - Smith America Invents Act (AIA), which made several significant changes to the U.S. patent system, including limiting the number of defendants in a lawsuit, causing some plaintiffs that would have previously filed a single lawsuit with multiple defendants to break the lawsuit into multiple lawsuits.