Sentences with phrase «negligence case against a defendant»

Whether it be a Massachusetts car accident, slip and fall, or any other type of personal injury case, the injury victim must prove the following elements in order to win a negligence case against a defendant:

Not exact matches

My summary of the case is: A trial judge — he wasn't named in the Court of Appeal but his name can easily be discovered — had dismissed plaintiff's claim against the defendant bank and a solicitor for breach of fiduciary duty and negligence.

He represents both claimants and defendants and has great experience in all types of clinical negligence actions including cases against hospitals, general practitioners and associated healthcare professionals.

Typically, such benefits are less than the amount that an employee might have received in a negligence lawsuit against a non-employer defendant for the same injury, but the trade - off is that workers» compensation cases are less likely to be contested and protracted than negligence actions — at least in theory.

Summary judgment granted for defendant in case against an oil tank testing and removal company alleging negligence in connection with the testing of the underground oil tank.

The family of the victim can file a case against a defendant whose negligence led to the accident and consequently the death of the victim.

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).