Assumption of risk is a defense, specifically an affirmative defense, in the law of torts, which bars or reduces a plaintiff's right to recovery against...

terms of boxing. Volenti is also known as a "voluntary assumption of risk". Volenti is sometimes described as the plaintiff "consenting to run a risk". In...

installed behind home plate constituted contributory negligence and assumption of risk on his part. Conversely, in the second, decided a year later, the...

fertilisers, organic certification, and assumption of risk in case of crop failure. It has helped convert 10000 acres of arable land in Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan...

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primary assumption of risk to apply. Courts may refuse to enforce a general liability waiver if it fails to inform the signer of the specific risk that caused...

reasonably and not increase the risks of the activity, but may be excluded from liability by assumption of the risk or waiver. Where relevant, the dive...

act of the defendant; and assumption of the risk of harm connected with the activity of the defendant. There are five requirements for the defence of consent:...

to allow the rare disease assumption. Unfortunately, the magnitude of discrepancy between the odds ratio and the relative risk is dependent not only on...

satisfaction, arbitration and award, assumption of risk, contributory negligence, discharge in bankruptcy, estoppel, failure of consideration, fraud, illegality...

receive publicly-funded government bailouts that mitigate the firms' assumption of risk and undermine market laws, and where private production is largely...

that every person in public accepts the possibility of being photographed because assumption of risk is based on conscious consent, and might also argue...

knowingly published a falsehood was generally accepted as proof of malice (under the assumption that only a malicious person would knowingly publish a falsehood)...

splitting or spreading of risk among multiple parties. In the U.S. insurance market, co-insurance is the joint assumption of risk between the insurer and...

ordinary prudence. Assumption of risk allows an employer to be held harmless to the extent the injured employee voluntarily accepted the risks associated with...

of any opportunity which might arise, noting a possible shift in the balance between "the reward from fraud" and the risk of detection. An aspect of the...

to harsh results, many common law jurisdictions have abolished it in favor of a "comparative fault" or "comparative negligence" approach. A comparative...

Loss of consortium is a term used in the law of torts that refers to the deprivation of the benefits of a family relationship due to injuries caused by...

for Lyme disease) have been removed from the market because of unacceptable liability risk to the manufacturer. The National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act...

In the law of torts, malpractice, also known as professional negligence, is an "instance of negligence or incompetence on the part of a professional"....

otherwise declared by stipulation, or when the nature of the obligation requires the assumption of risk, no person shall be responsible for those events which...

Risk management is the identification, evaluation, and prioritization of risks, followed by the minimization, monitoring, and control of the impact or...

account the culpability of the original actor. The plaintiff must demonstrate that the defendant's action increased the risk that the particular harm...

an irreversible global catastrophe. One argument for the importance of this risk references how human beings dominate other species because the human...

The defence of property is a common method of justification used by defendants who argue that they should not be held liable for any loss and injury that...

breach of fiduciary duty, or breach of contract by a lawyer during the provision of legal services that causes harm to a client. A common example of legal...

because it deprives the child of the known benefits of a language-rich environment. Under the former assumption the risk is that the teacher will speak...

professional criminals could obtain liability insurance to insure against the risk of being caught and prosecuted by the state, or sued in civil actions by their...

prosecutor prove the existence of a duty of care, breach of that duty by the defendant resulting in death, and a risk of death that would be obvious to...

premises liability claim, a type of personal injury claim or case based on a person slipping (or tripping) on the premises of another and, as a result, suffering...