FL · jury_instructions
Fla. Std. Jury Instr. (Civ.) 402.5
OTHER PROFESSIONAL NEGLIGENCE
Negligence is the failure to use reasonable care. Reasonable care on the part of a (identify professional) is the care that a reasonably careful (identify professional) would use under like circumstances. Negligence is doing something that a reasonably careful (identify professional) would not do under like circumstances or failing to do something that a reasonably careful (identify professional) would do under like circumstances.
Provenance
- Source
- floridabar.org
- Retrieved
- 2026-08-18
- Edition
- 2026-08-18
- Content hash
5e778478ba2fb8e7237b408a3d826da94dc51873c3879c4f1953d3315fe12d44
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