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7.3 Jones Act Negligence Claim—Negligence Defined

7.3 Jones Act Negligence Claim—Negligence Defined

            Negligence under the Jones Act is the failure to use reasonable care. Reasonable care is the degree of care that reasonably prudent persons would use under like circumstances to avoid injury to themselves or others. Negligence is the doing of something that a reasonably prudent person would not do, or the failure to do something that a reasonably prudent person would do, under the circumstances.

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File 7.03_civil_2017.wpd [1]

Source URL: https://www.ce9.uscourts.gov/jury-instructions/node/124

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