Defendants raise a number of defenses in personal injury cases in order to prove that they are not negligent. Three of the most common defenses to a negligence cause of action are: The defendant owed no duty of care to the plaintiff Often defendants will try to claim they had no duty to act in [...]
California law defines ordinary negligence as the failure to use reasonable care to prevent harm to oneself or to others. A person is negligent if he or she: Does something that a reasonably careful person would NOT do in the same situation, or Fails to do something that a reasonably careful person WOULD do in the same [...]
Under California personal injury law, people often owe a “duty of care” to others. The duty is often created by law — for instance, teachers and daycare centers have a duty to look after children who have been left in their care. Drivers have a duty to obey traffic laws so as not to create [...]
