Liability & Negligence

Standard of Care

The degree of care and caution that a reasonable person would exercise in similar circumstances.

In Personal Injury Cases

The standard of care varies by context. Medical professionals are held to the standard of a reasonably competent practitioner in their field.

This term belongs to the Liability & Negligence category and is part of our machine-readable California injury-law glossary.

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A legal obligation requiring a person to exercise a reasonable standard of care while performing acts that could foreseeably harm others.

A legal standard measuring conduct against what a hypothetical "reasonable person" would do in similar circumstances.

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

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