FL · jury_instructions
Fla. Std. Jury Instr. (Civ.) 409.4
NEGLIGENCE
Negligence is the failure to use reasonable care, which is the care that a reasonably careful person would use under like circumstances. Negligence is doing something that a reasonably careful person would not do under like circumstances or failing to do something that a reasonably careful person would do under like circumstances.
Provenance
- Source
- floridabar.org
- Retrieved
- 2026-08-18
- Edition
- 2026-08-18
- Content hash
9608fa3a20b2bdb5a79d0167e9a8e90dc0800bc26e047573349d4a57a266281e
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