Sentences with phrase «ordinary negligence as»

Decedent's husband brought a wrongful death action alleging ordinary negligence as well as corporate liability on the part of the hospital (decedent received surgery and emergency care at the same facility).

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In relation to damage / loss caused by ordinary negligence, Koch Media shall only be liable insofar as the matter relates to a breach of material contractual duties.
Defined as a lack of ordinary care, negligence refers to the absence of the level of attention that would be considered as reasonably sensible and cautious.
Negligence is defined as a violation of a standard of care that any ordinary person would take to ensure otherâ $ ™ s safety.
California defines «negligence» as actions or inactions which show a, «want of ordinary care or skill in the management of his or her property or person.»
«Negligence» should be understood in an untechnical way to denote failure to act with the competence reasonably expected or ordinary members of the profession, but an applicant for a wasted costs order had as high a burden as in an action for nNegligence» should be understood in an untechnical way to denote failure to act with the competence reasonably expected or ordinary members of the profession, but an applicant for a wasted costs order had as high a burden as in an action for negligencenegligence.
the conduct which qualifies as ordinary care when deciding a negligence action are those commensurate with the responsibility involved as a pedestrian as opposed to a driver and depend on the instrumentality being used or the act being performed as related to all of the surrounding circumstances of the accident.
Therefore, the court found, when the evidence was viewed in favor of the plaintiff, there was a genuine issue of material fact as to whether the defendant driver failed to exercise ordinary care (the standard for Georgia ordinary negligence cases) in parking his truck in front of his home and was therefore potentially negligent.
A recent case in front of a California appellate court illustrates one plaintiff's battle to classify his injury case as one of ordinary negligence.
Negligence is defined as «A failure to behave with the level of care that someone of ordinary prudence would have exercised under the same circumstances.»
For example, while ordinary medical mistakes by a medical doctor such as confusing two drugs with similar names or putting the decimal point in a prescription dosage, causing harm to a patient, would not ordinarily result in criminal liability, coming into an operating room while too drunk to drive and without reviewing which limb of a patient needs to be amputated despite a clear indication in marker on the leg of a patient showing that fact, might constitute criminal negligence on the part of a medical doctor.
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