The comparative fault laws of your state play an important role in shaping your car accident claim.

Comparative negligence is a principle of tort law commonly used to assign blame and award monetary damages to injured parties in auto accidents.

Comparative negligence is a partial defense in tort cases. If an accident victim wants to sue someone who harmed them, the defendant can claim comparative negligence to reduce the plaintiff's ...

And unsurprisingly, juries in modified comparative negligence jurisdictions are more likely to find that a plaintiff was between 40 and 50% ” Id. at 967. at 965. 624.155 (4) (a), Fla. Stat. (2023).

Supreme Court of New Jersey rules that individual not subject to personal jurisdiction in the state is not considered a party under the Comparative Negligence Act CN ...

The 1986 Tort Reform and Insurance Act made Florida a “pure comparative negligence jurisdiction” and abolished the doctrine of joint and several liability in most negligence actions.

The Florida Supreme Court Committee on Standard Jury Instructions in Civil Cases has proposed and now adopted new jury instructions to address the changes made to the modified comparative fault ...

The aim of the book is to have utility for both legal and medical professionals; for academics and students of comparative medical negligence and tort law; and for law reformers who may be ...

In other words, in a modified comparative fault jurisdiction, a car accident victim that is found to have been 50% or 51% responsible for an accident would be unable to recover their losses.