Articles Tagged with negligence rules

Personal injury cases involve proving one party’s actions or lack of actions resulted in another party’s injuries. Not all accidents are black and white, however, and sometimes both parties share in the fault. How that affects the outcome of a personal injury case depends on the negligence rules in place.

Different jurisdictions observe different rules of negligence. Essentially, those rules are:

• Contributory negligence whereby the injured party is barred from recovering any damages if it can be shown they were even 1% at fault in the accident;