Premises liability. What is it?
Posted on Thursday, November 13th, 2008
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 [...]
Intervening Cause’s Role in a Personal Injury Case
Posted on Monday, October 13th, 2008
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 [...]
continue readingPersonal Injury Definitions: Proximate Cause
Posted on Sunday, October 12th, 2008
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 [...]
continue readingPersonal Injury Definitions: Negligence
Posted on Friday, October 10th, 2008
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 [...]
continue readingPersonal Injury Definitions: Strict Liability
Posted on Friday, October 3rd, 2008
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, [...]