Sentences with phrase «violated by the negligence»

You might feel like your personal safety has been totally violated by the negligence of someone else and not know if you can ever feel safe as a pedestrian again.

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Violating the rules of the road by ignoring a hazard, behaving recklessly, or purposefully breaking the law may be negligence.

Negligence is generally proven by demonstrating that the defendant was in a position where he or she owed the plaintiff a duty and caused the damages alleged by violating that duty.

In a lawsuit alleging negligence by another person, plaintiffs typically must prove that the defendant acted in a way that violated a duty owed to the plaintiff.

Furthermore, the practice argued that the negligence per se claim could not stand because the statutes at issue that were violated are not intended to prevent the type of harm incurred by the plaintiff, and, separately, the professional negligence claim could not stand because the conduct at issue did not involve the exercise of professional judgment or skill.

In order to establish such negligence by the park or its employees, your attorney will need to show that the defendant violated its duty of care by failing to ensure that the grounds were free of unsafe conditions.

Because our existing case law holds that a property owner does not violate the duty of reasonable care by failing to remove natural accumulations of snow and ice, see Sullivan v. Brookline, 416 Mass. 825, 827 (1994), the judge concluded that, as a matter of law, the plaintiff could not prevail on his claims of negligence; therefore, the judge allowed the defendants» motions for summary judgment.