🔥 Negligence elements
Duty, breach, causation, damages.
🔥 Negligence duty
Duty exists when harm is foreseeable.
🔥 Negligence breach
Failure to act as a reasonable person.
🔥 Actual cause
But for defendant’s conduct, harm would not have occurred.
🔥 Proximate cause
Harm must be foreseeable.
🔥 Negligence damages
Plaintiff must suffer actual harm.
🔥 Comparative negligence
Recovery reduced by plaintiff’s percentage of fault.
🔥 Vicarious liability
Employer liable for employee acting within scope of employment.
Negligence per se
Statute violated, plaintiff protected, harm intended to be prevented.
Superseding cause
Unforeseeable independent cause breaks proximate cause.
No duty to rescue
Absent special relationship.
Defamation elements
False statement, publication, fault, damages.
