Legal Question in Personal Injury in California
original neglignet people liable for additional broken arm
if X & Y are in an accident and hit P. P suffers a broken leg and an ambluance take P to the hosipital. on the way to the hospital Z's careless driving hits the Ambulance and P suffers a broken arm. the ambulance driver is found 0% fault. x & y are liable for the broken leg but are they also liable for the arm injury?
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Re: original neglignet people liable for additional broken arm
Most likely, yes.
Re: original neglignet people liable for additional broken arm
A is an instructor teaching a law-related class. B is a student in that class. As part of a homework assignment, A tells his students to figure out whether X and Y, who have injured P in an accident, are liable for further injuries he suffers when his ambulance crashes. Instead of doing his own homework, B posts the same question on LawGuru.com hoping that real attorneys will give him the answer so that he won't have to actually do his homework himself.
Q: You are an attorney -- who got to be an attorney by doing your own schoolwork and not by tricking others into doing it for you -- who sees this question. Should you answer it?
Re: original neglignet people liable for additional broken arm
My friend, Mr. Hoffman, is a cynic! Your question turns upon whether it was reasonably foreseeable for the ambulance driver to rush to the hospital. Nevertheless, it wasn't the ambulance driver's liability for the arm injury, it was the collision between x & y that caused one or both of them to hit the ambulance. The substantial cause of the injury was the combined tortfeasance of x & y. Now you should get an "A" on the test.
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