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WEEK 3 YOU DECIDE
Negligence is a particular type of tort action that involves something the law calls a “duty of care.” The standard of care depends on the facts and circumstances of the case but, generally, the duty of care, in its broadest sense, means each of us should behave responsibly and sensibly, in the way a reasonable person would behave.
To be guilty of negligence, a defendant in a lawsuit must breach that duty of care, and the breach of duty must be the cause of harm to the plaintiff.
The law looks at two types of causation—actual cause and proximate cause. Often, injury and harm is the result of a chain of events.