Jury Concludes Baseball Prospect Mostly Responsible for Own Rhabdo Case

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As anyone who works in the sports and recreation industries should know, the number one cause of lawsuits is negligence. In most of these cases, the facility or its employees failed to act with the level of care that was required of them under the circumstances. Perhaps the facility or its employees failed to provide proper supervision or medical care, when it owed such a duty to the people using the facility.

Historically, if the plaintiff was in any way also negligent in causing their injuries, their contributory negligence acted as a complete bar to recovering damages for the negligence of the facility or employees. Under contributory negligence, the degree of the plaintiff’s negligence is irrelevant. Even if the plaintiff was only 1% negligent, he or she would receive nothing from a defendant who was 99% negligent.

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