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Premises liability is suing for injuries you experienced, usually at a public place, in which case the surroundings contributed or were fully responsible for your injuries or damages.
For example, you are walking up the ramp at a local mall and are struck by a car. Anyone, not experienced, would usually think of suing the driver [...]

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Intervening Cause comes between one act (or failure to act) which alters the natural and continuous series of events that follows. When an intervening cause is present, since the natural chain of events have been changed due to the subsequent act of another, the initial actor may be relieved of the responsibility for an injury [...]

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Proximate cause is the initial act which sets off a natural and continuous sequence of events that produces injury. In the absence of the initial act which produces injury, no injury would have resulted. Any time you act, you start a series of natural and continuous events to occur (for example, after swinging your arm [...]

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A person is negligent when he or she fails to act like the standard “ordinary reasonable person”. Of course the critical issue in many cases is just how an “ordinary, reasonable person” was expected to act in the particular situation that caused the injury.
For example, an ordinary, reasonable person can travel down the Interstate, which [...]

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Strict liability is a legal doctrine that makes some persons responsible for damages their actions or products cause, regardless of any “fault” on their part.
Strict liability often applies when people engage in inherently hazardous activities, such as doing “blasting” in a city, or keeping wild circus animals.
Strict liability also may apply in the case of [...]

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