What is considered negligence or liable?
Negligence means a personal can be held responsible for an accident because he or she did not act as an ordinary reasonable person would. For instance, if a department store floor is wet, but no sign is placed to make customers aware of the danger and someone slips and falls, the store can be found negligent. A person can be held liable, even if not negligent or acting with wrongful intent. Perhaps you were seriously injured in an auto accident with an 18 wheeler truck, and the driver of the truck was intoxicated at the time of the accident. Although the company the driver worked for was unaware of the driver’s intoxication, they could still be held liable.
