Legal aspects
Taking actions that are ordinary or usual to protect against a foreseeable event—the central legal issue being that innkeepers owe a duty of care to all persons on their property
Reasonable Care
Monetary awards paid by the defendant to (1) compensate the plaintiff, t
Damages
Damages awarded to compensate the plaintiff for pain and suffering, loss of income during a period of absence from work, medical and hospital expenses, and recuperative facility or home-service expenses.
Compensatory Damages
The removal of a cause from an inferior court to one of superior jurisdiction for the purpose of obtaining a review.
Appeals
The general Anglo-American system of legal concepts and the traditional legal technique that forms the basis of the law of the states that have invoked it.
Common Law
The side that initiates and files the suit.
Plaintiff
The primary or predominating cause from which an injury follows as a natural, direct, and immediate consequence, and without which the injury would not have occurred.
Proximate Cause
Other name of proximate cause
Legal Cause
Damages awarded against a person as punishment for outrageous conduct which also acts as a deterrent to similar conduct.
Punitive Damages
Failure to exercise the care that a reasonably prudent person would exercise under like or similar circumstances
Negligence
The reasonable likelihood that a specific future incident could have been foreseen—and, therefore, prevented—based on knowledge of past similar incidents on the premises or in the surrounding community.
Foreseeability
The person or side that a lawsuit is brought against.
Defendant
An action calculated to deceive (including acts, omissions, and concealments) involving a breach of a legal or equitable duty, trust, or confidence that results in damage to another.
Fraud
Wrongful
Tortious
A decision made by a jury and reported to the court on matters lawfully submitted to the jury in the course of the trial of a case.
Verdict