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What is negligence?

In tort law, negligence is the failure to exercise reasonable care to prevent causing foreseeable harm to others. When a person acts negligently, he or she may create or fail to prevent a dangerous condition that leads to an injury. In a personal injury case, if a person can be shown to be negligent, and an injury can be shown to be a result of that negligence, he or she may be held liable for the injury in question.

Proving negligence is a key part of proving liability and recovering compensation in a personal injury case. To learn how you can initiate a personal injury claim for compensation, contact the Baltimore personal injury attorneys of Belsky, Weinberg & Horowitz, LLC today at 410-234-0100.

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