Sentence examples for constituted negligence from inspiring English sources

About 200 lawsuits have been filed in Louisiana alleging that these institutions are liable for the deaths and for the suffering of other patients who survived because corporate failure to plan adequately for flooding and implement evacuation constituted negligence or medical malpractice.

Therefore, on the facts of this case, a finding by the jury that Zezulka's failure to remove Hickey's belt, and her failure to properly supervise him in the DPS holding cell, constituted negligence would be nonsensical if Hickey's subsequent intentional act of harming himself was not reasonably foreseeable by Zezulka.

Expert witnesses are frequently influenced by their knowledge of the outcome in determining whether a radiologist, acting reasonably, ought to have detected an abnormality when reporting a study prior to the outcome being known, and thus in suggesting whether failure to detect the abnormality constituted negligence.

The Gertmenian case revolved around the opposing testimony of experts on both sides and the complex question of "proximate cause," whether the specific acts or lack of acts by doctors and hospital staff constituted negligence and created a situation that resulted in a particular medical condition.

It therefore remains to this day a well established "common law concep[t] of negligence," ibid.,that is suitable to inform our determination of the federal question of what constitutes negligence for purposes of FELA.

Elisabeth Belmont, corporate counsel for Maine Health, which operates seven hospitals, a nursing home and a home health agency in Maine, said plaintiffs' lawyers could argue that any deviation from the "minimum standards" constitutes negligence, showing medical malpractice.

And while "[w]hat constitutes negligence for the statute's purposes is a federal question," Urie, 337 U. S., at 174, we have made clear that this federal question generally turns on principles of common law: "the Federal Employers Liability Actt is founded on common law concepts of negligence and injury, subject to such qualifications as Congress has imported into those terms". Id., at 182.

One of the factors in determining whether certain conduct constitutes negligence is an assessment whether the defendant knew or should have known that his conduct was likely to result in harm-- should tharm-- shouldharm-- shouldly foreseen thet what he was defendanthavedone up to then might cause hareasonably he was negligent". Davis, supra, 384 Mich. at 146, 180 N.W.2d 11.

"The Process of Managing Medical Malpractice Cases: The Role of the Sta" by Thomas B. Metzloff, Ralph A. Peeples et al. In medical malpractice litigation, how the standard of care is determined is of obvious importance, since failure by a defendant-physician to meet the relevant standard of care constitutes negligence.

Failure to comply with federal and state highway safety regulations and traffic laws that proximately causes an injury constitutes "negligence per se" (automatically unreasonable conduct).

A Portland pimp named Sirgiorgiro Clardy wants a $100 million settlement from Nike because he claims that not warning people that their shoes could be used as a deadly weapon constitutes negligence.