avannah, Georgia Negligence law firm

avannah, Georgia Negligence law firm

Negligence is the oldest theory of product liability. To recover under a negligence theory in Savannah, Georgia , a plaintiff must show four factors: duty; breach of duty; proximate cause; and injury. A defendant will be found negligent only if it had a legal duty to exercise reasonable care in its actions. One has a duty to exercise reasonable care when not doing so can result in an unreasonable risk of harm, provided that the injury to the claimant was reasonably foreseeable by the defendant. ‘Reasonable care’ is the extent of care that a reasonable individual would exercise under similar circumstances. Although this standard never differs, the level of care that will be found reasonable in the circumstances will differ proportionately with the danger involved. For example, a manufacturer of toys designed for use by infants will have a greater obligation of care in guarding against the risk that a child could swallow tiny pieces than would a manufacturer of construction kits for teenagers. Once the claimant has established that the defendant owed him or her a duty of care, the plaintiff must show breach of duty. This means that the claimant has to establish that the defendant failed to exercise reasonable care with regard to the plaintiff. While in most cases the duty of care is identified only by the breach, it is a separate element that the jury must determine before the claimant can go ahead with a damage claim in negligence.

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Savannah GA personal injury lawyers and car accident attorneys. We represent injury victims in dog bite, car and truck wreck cases, medical malpractice, scarring injury, and spinal cord injury cases.

Our injury lawyers handle cases in Savannah, Georgia. Our Georgia car accident lawyers represent clients in Savannah & throughout Coastal Georgia including Savannah, Hinesville, Richmond Hill, Fort Stewart, Bloomingdale, Garden City, Pooler, Port Wentworth, Thunderbolt, Tybee Island, and Vernonburg, Bryan County, Liberty County, Long County, Chatham County , and Effingham County.

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