Cause Of Injury
In a personal injury lawyer Phoenix case, once you have shown that someone has breached a duty toward your client, you have established that person's legal responsibility for your client's injuries.
However, in some personal injury lawyer Phoenix cases, the person who injured your client may claim that even if she was breached her duty and was negligent, that negligence was not the cause of the accident. For example, you may be able to show that another driver failed to signal before making a left turn. However, the other driver may say that you had a stop sign and should not have entered the intersection at all until the other car had cleared it, regardless of whether it was turning.
In another example, where an owner's stairs have a loose handrail and her guest falls, the owner of the property may claim that the fall was not caused by the loose handrail, but by the guest's own carelessness in bounding up two stairs at a time in an effort to get into the apartment and answer the ringing phone.
In most personal injury lawyer Phoenix cases arguments about causation are not all or nothing. They are instead about how much each person's negligence contributed to the accident.
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