If you are entirely at fault for your injuries, you will not receive any compensation. If you are partially at fault, you are entitled to compensation to the extent that the other party is responsible for your injuries. A settlement of verdict number is therefore reached by calculating the total damages and then reducing those […]

Yes, this presumption is called negligence per se. Negligence per se requires that the driver violated a statute, that you suffered an injury, and that the statute the driver violated was intended to prevent such injuries. Here is an example of negligence per se: You are riding through an intersection legally on a green light […]

To be at fault for an accident means that your negligence contributed to the accident — i.e., your negligence was a factual cause of the accident. It is perfectly possible to violate the vehicle code without being at fault for an accident. However, if you violate a law or vehicle code provision where that violation […]

Negligence is the failure to use reasonable care.