Chatham County, Georgia Negligence law firm

Chatham County, Georgia Negligence law firm

Negligence is the oldest theory of product liability. To recover under a negligence theory in Chatham County, Georgia , a claimant must show 4 elements: duty; breach of duty; proximate cause; and injury. The defendant can be found negligent only where it had a legal duty to exercise reasonable care in its actions. A person has an obligation to exercise reasonable care when the failure to do so may result in an unreasonable risk of harm, provided that the injury to the claimant was reasonably foreseeable by the defendant. ‘Reasonable care’ is the degree of care which a reasonable person would exercise under similar circumstances. Even though this standard never changes, the degree of care that will be found reasonable in the circumstances will differ proportionately with the danger involved. For example, a manufacturer of toys intended for use by infants has a greater duty of care in guarding against the risk that a child may swallow minute parts than would a manufacturer of construction kits for teenagers. Once the plaintiff has established that the defendant owed him or her a duty of care, the claimant should demonstrate breach of duty. This means that the plaintiff must show that the defendant did not exercise reasonable care with regard to the claimant. While in most cases the duty of care is identified only through the breach, it is a separate factor that the jury must decide before the claimant can proceed 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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