Respuesta :
Torts: prima facie elements of Negligence - (1) duty owed (2) breach of duty (3) actual cause (4) proximate cause (5) damages
General rule-
1. Every person has a duty to act as a reasonably prudent person would under like circumstances.
2. Duty is breached when such reasonable care is not exercised
3. But for the defendant’s action the harm would not have occurred
4. An event that is not reasonably foreseeable cannot be said to have proximately caused the ensuing damage.
(NOTE: this is the rule that could free Diego from liability in a claim of negligence. Jack’s estate may not liable because based on the facts that he had no history of heart disease and was legally driving it was not reasonably foreseeable that he would swerve into oncoming traffic and injure Diego)
General rule-
1. Every person has a duty to act as a reasonably prudent person would under like circumstances.
2. Duty is breached when such reasonable care is not exercised
3. But for the defendant’s action the harm would not have occurred
4. An event that is not reasonably foreseeable cannot be said to have proximately caused the ensuing damage.
(NOTE: this is the rule that could free Diego from liability in a claim of negligence. Jack’s estate may not liable because based on the facts that he had no history of heart disease and was legally driving it was not reasonably foreseeable that he would swerve into oncoming traffic and injure Diego)