Liability & Negligence

Res Ipsa Loquitur

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Latin for "the thing speaks for itself." A doctrine allowing negligence to be inferred when the accident wouldn't normally occur without negligence.

In Personal Injury Cases

If a surgical instrument is left inside you after surgery, res ipsa loquitur may apply because this wouldn't happen without someone's negligence.

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The failure to exercise the degree of care that a reasonably prudent person would exercise under similar circumstances.

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