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Showing posts with label negligence. Show all posts
Showing posts with label negligence. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 2, 2025

R.I. classifies e-bikes, limits bike path access, but pedestrians remain at risk without enforcement

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Kudos to Rhode Island legislators who in 2024 limited state bicycle trails and paths to a single class of e-bikes. The 2024 law, H7713 , chi...
Tuesday, May 20, 2025

Appeal in slip'n'fall points to deeper mysteries of historical 'open and obvious' danger doctrine

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Google Gemini CC0 Rejecting the phrase "open and obvious" as magical incantation, the Massachusetts Appeals Court Friday affirmed ...
Thursday, April 17, 2025

Tree falling on house invites court to parse 'discretion' in ruling city vulnerable to tort liability

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Google Gemini CC0 A straightforward case in the Massachusetts Appeals Court last week helps to clarify the meaning and purpose of discretion...
Friday, March 28, 2025

In negligence claims over child welfare, bus fight, Mass. high court opines on qualified, sovereign immunity

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Two immunity cases ended with different outcomes for public officials in the Massachusetts high court on two successive Fridays, and the cas...
Saturday, February 1, 2025

Suits over DCA disaster will struggle to overcome discretionary function exception to sovereign immunity

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View on my approach to DCA on a 2020 Southwest flight. RJ Peltz-Steele CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Media coverage of the air disaster at Reagan Washingt...
Thursday, October 31, 2024

Hospital's radiology contractor must answer negligence claim over patient death, per third-party doctrine

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Saint Vincent Hospital, Worcester, Mass. Terageorge~commonswiki via Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 4.0 A hospital's radiology contractor ma...
Thursday, September 19, 2024

Spoliation risk shows ill wisdom of state awarding contract to defendant in lawsuit over same project

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The eastbound span of the Washington Bridge remains functional. Jef Nickerson via Flickr CC BY-SA 2.0 The state of Rhode Island has found i...
Wednesday, March 27, 2024

Free torts textbook ready for academic year 2024-25

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TORTZ: A Study of American Tort Law is complete and revised for the coming academic year 2024-25. The two-volume textbook is posted for fr...
Wednesday, February 7, 2024

Criminal verdict in Mich. school shooting suggests parent vulnerability to civil negligence claims

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2018 National School Walkout Public domain via Rawpixel The criminal conviction of gun-owning parent Jennifer Crumbley yesterday in the 2021...
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Friday, January 26, 2024

Law immunizes school social worker in teen's suicide

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PickPik A public school social worker is immune from liability in the suicide of a 16-year-old boy, the Massachusetts Appeals Court ruled in...
Wednesday, January 24, 2024

TORTZ volume 2 unpacks duty, causation, damages, introduces nuisance, defamation, privacy

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Tortz volume 2 is now available for affordable purchase from Lulu.com and for free PDF download from SSRN . Tortz volume 2 follows up vol...