{"id":15296,"date":"2018-03-08T17:55:05","date_gmt":"2018-03-08T17:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=15296"},"modified":"2018-03-08T17:55:05","modified_gmt":"2018-03-08T17:55:05","slug":"assessing-liability-in-negligence-cases","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=15296","title":{"rendered":"Assessing Liability in Negligence Cases:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 This page is continued from <a href=\"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=10714\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Civil Law Self-Help<\/a> &gt;&gt;&gt;&gt; <a href=\"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=11511\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Section 1; <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=11511\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Torts, Breach of Contract, and Assessing Liability<\/em><\/a> &gt;&gt;&gt;&gt; <a href=\"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=7037\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Torts<\/a> &gt;&gt;&gt;&gt; <a href=\"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=8005\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Basic Classifications of Torts<\/a> &gt;&gt;&gt;&gt; <a href=\"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/\/?page_id=7992\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Negligent Tort<\/a> &gt;&gt;&gt;&gt; <a href=\"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=12881\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Negligence<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">:<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">************************<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=15214\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">comparative negligence (doctrine)<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8211; reduces a plaintiff&#8217;s recovery proportionally to the plaintiff&#8217;s degree of fault in causing the damage, rather than barring recovery completely.<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> \u2014 aka<strong> <em>comparative fault<\/em><\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=15223\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">contributory negligence (doctrine)<\/a><\/span> <span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8211; completely bars a plaintiff&#8217;s recovery if the damage suffered is partly the plaintiff&#8217;s own fault; <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">in most jurisdictions, this defense has been superseded by the<\/span><\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=15214\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">comparative negligence doctrine<\/a><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=15243\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">pure comparative-negligence doctrine<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8211; an absolute, literal translation of the comparative negligence doctrine that is adopted by a court.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=15246\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hybrid comparative negligence doctrine<\/a><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> &#8211; a court&#8217;s adoption of the comparative negligence doctrine, wherein, if the plaintiff&#8217;s negligence is great enough (usually 50%), the plaintiff is barred from recovering<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=6814\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">damages<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"CENTER\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">******************************************<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"CENTER\"><strong><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\">Back to <a href=\"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=12881\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Negligence<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"CENTER\"><strong><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\">Back to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/\/?page_id=7992\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Negligent Tort<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"CENTER\"><strong><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\">Back to <a href=\"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=8005\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Basic Classifications of Torts<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"CENTER\"><strong><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\">Back to <a href=\"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=7037\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Torts<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"CENTER\"><strong><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\">Back to <a href=\"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=11511\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Section 1; 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Section 1; Torts, Breach of Contract, and Assessing Liability &gt;&gt;&gt;&gt; Torts &gt;&gt;&gt;&gt; Basic Classifications of Torts &gt;&gt;&gt;&gt; Negligent Tort &gt;&gt;&gt;&gt; Negligence: ************************ comparative negligence (doctrine) &#8211; reduces a plaintiff&#8217;s recovery proportionally to the plaintiff&#8217;s degree of fault in causing the damage, rather than barring recovery &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=15296\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Assessing Liability in Negligence Cases:<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":12881,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-15296","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15300,"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15296\/revisions\/15300"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}