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He sued NCsoft for fraud and negligence , demanding over $9m in damages and claiming that the company acted negligently by failing to warn him of the danger that he would become "addicted" to the game.But does it make sense to talk of addiction to online activity?
Nothing excludes or limits GNMA's liability for personal injury or death due to its negligence.
The motion accused him of incompetence, negligence , and a lack of interest or engagement in his portfolio and of making misleading statements in the lead-up to the bill's introduction.
When a child dies of neglect or abuse, the local authority is accused of incompetence and negligence ; if there is an outbreak of foot and mouth disease, claims about inadequate precautions are heard; former employees of companies which have collapsed during the recession demand to know why more has not been done to save their jobs.
Benson, like many local fishermen, believes it was the negligence not only of the gangmasters but also of the authorities that was responsible for the tragedy: "In the summer of 2003, I rescued 50 to 60 Chinese folk who were stranded while cockling for a gangmaster … That should have been a warning".
They are also bringing claims for deceit, assault, misfeasance in public office and negligence.
There should be a law requiring all company directors to pay any fines imposed by the courts for negligence since otherwise they just pass them on to their customers, and absolutely no bonuses should be paid in any years in which such fines are imposed.
On Tuesday, former Conservative foreign secretary Lord Hurd said the way the inquiry was dragging on had gone beyond questions of mere negligence and forgivable delay.
Appearing alongside Gove at the Policy Exchange event, Hunt was expected to accuse the education secretary of "gross negligence " for failing to ensure local oversight of schools to ensure their study programme was "broad and balanced".
Having already had their charge reduced from murder to manslaughter by recklessness, Martin found the five guilty of the even lesser crime of manslaughter "by negligence".
"To avoid paying unlimited compensation, they have to show the crash was not due to negligence , omission or a wrongful act either by them or by their servants or agents," said Clive Garner, the head of aviation law at Irwin Mitchell, which has represented passengers' families in similar cases.
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The word "negligence" functions primarily as a noun , referring to the failure to exercise the care that a reasonably prudent person would exercise under similar circumstances. Ludwig AI confirms the term's correct usage in various contexts.
Expression frequency: Very common
