Difference between revisions of "Special duty"
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A '''special duty''' is an American legal concept that allows strangers to sue someone they never met and had no traditional legal relationship with. For example, this enables a car accident victim to sue the doctor of the driver if the doctor should have warned the driver not to drive. Courts can hold that the doctor had a "special relationship" with the victim, and a "special duty" not to expose the victim to a foreseeable and unreasonable risk of harm. | A '''special duty''' is an American legal concept that allows strangers to sue someone they never met and had no traditional legal relationship with. For example, this enables a car accident victim to sue the doctor of the driver if the doctor should have warned the driver not to drive. Courts can hold that the doctor had a "special relationship" with the victim, and a "special duty" not to expose the victim to a foreseeable and unreasonable risk of harm. | ||
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A special duty is an American legal concept that allows strangers to sue someone they never met and had no traditional legal relationship with. For example, this enables a car accident victim to sue the doctor of the driver if the doctor should have warned the driver not to drive. Courts can hold that the doctor had a "special relationship" with the victim, and a "special duty" not to expose the victim to a foreseeable and unreasonable risk of harm.
Four states recognize this concept of a "special duty":
Five states do not allow liability for this "special duty":
