Sentences with phrase «to exercise reasonable care»

Drivers are responsible for exercising reasonable care in order to ensure that the passengers are safe.

Just like drivers, a pedestrian must also exercise reasonable care for his or her own safety.

In a nutshell, this means someone did not exercise reasonable care that ultimately caused the injury or death.

As a general rule, a defendant violates a duty to a plaintiff by failing to exercise reasonable care under the circumstances.

Owners, officers, and directors also have the duty of care, the obligation to exercise reasonable care when making decisions on behalf of the corporation.

The customer sued the owner and the sales associates for failing to exercise reasonable care by warning her of the staircase.

A driver who fails to exercise reasonable care while driving and causes an accident, may be liable for the damages caused by the accident.

But it's still worth exercising reasonable care to keep the problem from arising.

When nursing home staff exercise reasonable care, falls and resulting head injuries can be prevented.

Drivers who fail to exercise reasonable care cause accidents and injuries to other motorists.

You will have to prove that the individual failed to exercise reasonable care in operating the tractor trailer and that this failure caused your injury.

All drivers have the duty to exercise reasonable care for the safety of drivers and occupants of other vehicles with whom they share a road or highway.

Generally, a personal injury action requires an injury sustained as a result of the failure of another person to exercise reasonable care under the circumstances.

The Court of Appeal noted municipalities have a duty to prevent or remedy road conditions that create an unreasonable risk of harm for ordinary drivers exercising reasonable care — «In other words, a municipality's standard of care is measured by the «ordinary reasonable driver.»

The victim must also prove that the defendant could have reasonably foreseen the injury and had the defendant exercised reasonable care, the accident and the subsequent injury could have been avoided.

These cases can be pursued when a person undertakes or renders services to another that he / she should recognize as necessary for the protection of the third person and his / her things is subject to liability if the third person suffers physical harm resulting from failure to exercise reasonable care if:

In 1959, the Supreme Court made clear that under maritime law, the owner of ship in navigable waters owes visitors «the duty of exercising reasonable care under the circumstances.»

While Glass Lewis exercises reasonable care to ensure that all information included in this blog is accurate and is obtained from sources believed to be reliable, no representations or warranties express or implied, are made as to the accuracy or completeness of any information included herein.

The idea is to encourage people to exercise reasonable care so they can avoid breaching their legal obligations.

Exercising reasonable care involves doing all that's in one's own power to prevent harm to another individual.

You need to do know if his death may have been preventable had the anesthesiologist and others exercised reasonable care.

Liability will also largely depend on whether or not the driver of the vehicle exercised all reasonable care, given the circumstances of the particular case.

I will fight to ensure that justice is sought in cases in which a loved one was lost through a negligent act, whether in a car accident, motorcycle accident or other incident that could have been avoided had the person exercised reasonable care for the safety of others.

Your Spokane medical malpractice lawyer will need to prove that another doctor or hospital exercising reasonable care would have made different decisions and you would not have been injured as a result.

Often Massachusetts slip and fall accidents could have been entirely avoided had a property owner exercised reasonable care to make their property safe.

On behalf of Mrs Gouldburn, it was argued that the judge had been wrong to hold that the proper test was whether the ski instructor exercised reasonable care and skill as measured against local Bulgarian standards.

While a real estate professional can usually rely upon the information that he / she receives from his / her client, this does not insulate the real estate professional from claims; instead, the question is whether the real estate professional exercised reasonable care in making the statements in question.

The good news is that brokers can limit their liability when there's been no adverse employment action by demonstrating that the company exercised reasonable care to prevent or correct problems and that the employee failed to take advantage of preventive or corrective opportunities provided by the employer.

When you are injured on the diving board of a pool belonging to another, that other person may be responsible for contributing to your injuries if he or she did not exercise reasonable care in maintaining the diving board.

Dog attack or dog bite statutes vary among the states with some requiring an injured person to prove the elements of negligence or that the owner or caretaker of the dog did not exercise reasonable care in preventing the dog from attacking someone.

As I said in my prior post, the significance of this relates back to the fact that lawyers have an ethical duty to exercise reasonable care when selecting a product or service that relates to confidential client matters.

Florida Statute § 768.0755 states that the injury victim must show that the business (grocery store, bar and grill, etc.) had actual or constructive knowledge about the dangerous condition, i.e., the rain - covered slippery floor at the entrance, which caused the accident, and failed to exercise reasonable care by not placing a floor mat in the area.

In California, all drivers have a duty to exercise reasonable care while operating a motor vehicle.

«A municipality's duty of repair is limited to ensuring that its roads can be driven safely by ordinary drivers exercising reasonable care.

If an adult has accepted the responsibility of watching over and caring for a child, a duty arises on the part of the adult to exercise reasonable care for the child's safety during the time the adult is watching over or otherwise caring for the child.

This means if the insurance company can prove you in any way contributed to the accident by not exercising reasonable care under the circumstances, you may be completely barred from obtaining compensation for your injuries.

«He also failed to exercise reasonable care and diligence in connection with an undisclosed loan of RMB900 million provided by a Mainland subsidiary of Hanergy to Hanergy Holding in March 2014.»

We will exercise reasonable care in providing secure transmission of information between your computer and our servers, but given that no information transmitted over the Internet can be guaranteed 100 % secure, we can not ensure or warrant the security of any information transmitted to us over the Internet and hence accept no liability for any unintentional disclosure.

One of their duties is to «exercise reasonable care, skill and diligence».

(a) you promptly report the unauthorized use, loss or theft within 2 business days; and (b) you have exercised reasonable care in safeguarding your Card from risk of loss or theft.

Your liability may be somewhat limited or reduced if the injured person did not exercise reasonable care, such as not walking on a clearly icy sidewalk in high heels with a huge stack of Christmas presents in their arms blocking their view.

You are not responsible for unauthorized transactions as long as you exercised reasonable care in safeguarding your card (s).

4 Zero Liability is available to holders of American Express Cards issued by First National Bank under the following conditions: Your account is in good standing, you have exercised reasonable care in protecting your card from theft, and you have not reported two or more unauthorized events in the past 12 months.

It shall be the duty of all owners and custodians of animals, to exercise reasonable care and to take all necessary steps and precautions to protect other people, property, and animals from injuries or damage which might result from their animal's behavior, regardless of the instinct or motivation for such behavior.

*** As a Mastercard credit cardholder, you will not be held responsible for unauthorized transactions if you have exercised reasonable care in safeguarding your card from loss or theft and you promptly reported any loss or theft of your card to your issuer.

(e) the possessor fails to exercise reasonable care to eliminate the danger or otherwise to protect the children.

Lawyers have an ethical duty to exercise reasonable care to protect the confidentiality and security of client information.

Some common discrepancies in bicycle accident cases involve determining who had the right of way, failed to exercise reasonable care, and violated traffic laws.