"negligence" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- It is not easy for a defendant to show both elements and therefore comparative negligence usually constitutes a better defence in many cases.
- All but four US states now follow a statutorily created regime of comparative negligence.
- That $14.1 million award was sliced by 30 percent, to $9.9 million, because of the woman's "comparative negligence."
- It would replace the "joint and several liability" doctrine with one of "comparative negligence."
- Under proportionate liability (sometimes also called comparative negligence), the city would only have been liable for their one percent of the damages.
- Secondary assumption of risk is a rather different doctrine akin in some respects to comparative negligence.
- This new type of split liability is commonly called comparative negligence.
- In comparative negligence, the victim's damages are reduced according to the degree of fault.
- When comparative negligence was adopted, three main versions were used.
- The second and third versions are lumped together in what is called "modified" comparative negligence.
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