HI · jury_instructions
Haw. Civil Jury Instr. 6.2
FORESEEABILITY
In determining whether a person was negligent, it may help
to ask whether a reasonable person in the same situation would
have foreseen or anticipated that injury or damage could result
from that person's action or inaction. If such a result would be
foreseeable by a reasonable person and if the conduct reasonably
could be avoided, then not to avoid it would be negligence.
Only the general nature of the harm need be foreseeable. A
person need not have foreseen the precise nature of the
resulting injury or the exact manner in which it occurred.
Provenance
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- courts.state.hi.us
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- 2026-08-20
- Edition
- 2026-08-20
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