Business Law
Contributory negligence describes the conduct that usually creates individual risks that are not reasonable (Magnus &Martin-Casals, 2004). That is such individuals are obligated to act reasonably as a person. Therefore, when a person fails to act in such a manner and injury occurs, then such a person may be held partially or fully responsible for the injury even if another person was part of the accident. For example, a driver knocking down a pedestrian who was crossing the road blindly without checking the traffic or any crossing sign. In this case, the pedestrian will partially responsible and is liable ...