Who is responsible when someone is hurt?
Was there something you were supposed to do that you didn’t? Is there something someone else did that they should not have? The answers to those questions determine who is at fault and who was negligent.
If you do something that causes damage to another person, you are at fault. If you didn’t do something that you were supposed to do, and that causes damage to another person, that is negligence. If you have done one of these things, the victim is going to be seeking for financial relief in a court of law. If you have the right type of insurance, your insurance company will defend you up to the amount of coverage you purchased.
To determine the amount of the claim, the jury will have to listen to the facts of the case, in an attempt to put a dollar amount on the amount of the damages. The victim’s attorney will have to introduce evidence to prove the dollar amount of the damages. The defendant’s attorney is going to introduce evidence to persuade the jury to award less money or no money at all.
What if more than one person is at fault? The jury will have to listen to the evidence, and then decide on a percentage of fault for each person based on their assessment of facts.
Robin Nightingale focuses her practice as a personal injury attorney in Clearwater, Palm Harbor, Safety Harbor, Largo, Dunedin and the Tampa Bay area.
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