Examples of Negligence Act in a sentence
The foregoing provision shall not be deemed a relinquishment or waiver of any kind of Section 7 of the Governmental Liability for Negligence Act, being Act No. 170, Public Acts of Michigan, 1964.
The foregoing provision shall not be deemed a relinquishment or waiver of any kind of governmental immunity provided under Section 7 of the Governmental Liability for Negligence Act, being MCL 691.1407 of the Michigan Compiled Laws.
The reductions required by subsections (1), (4) and (6) shall be made after any apportionment of damages required by section 3 of the Negligence Act.
If fault or negligence on the part of the person entitled to damages for non-pecuniary loss contributed to those damages, the award for damages shall be reduced under paragraph 3 before the damages are apportioned under section 3 of the Negligence Act.
The Contributory Negligence Act retained joint and several liability, but made adjustments in cases where one or more of the defendants is unable to pay its share of the total amount (judgement).Each of the parties at fault, including the plaintiff if contributorily negligent, will still have to pay a share of the judgement based on their degree of fault.
The loan recipient shall indemnify, save harmless and defend the State of Illinois and the Agency from all claims for loss, damage, injury or death, whether caused by the negligence of the State of Illinois, the Agency, their agents or employees or otherwise, consistent with the provisions of Section 1 of the Construction Contract Indemnification for Negligence Act [740 ILCS 35/1].
However, nothing in this Contract shall require Contractor/Vendor to indemnify RVC or any other party from RVC’s own negligence, and this clause shall be interpreted to be consistent with the Construction Contract Indemnification for Negligence Act.
The Court disagreed and concluded that, where a contracting party has placed an explicit and strict obligation on a professional adviser to carry out particular tasks, that strict contractual obligation cannot be compromised by the Contributory Negligence Act 1947 or by any analogous apportionment.
Nothing in this Section 10 is intended to violate the provisions of the Construction Contract Indemnification for Negligence Act, 740 ILCS 35/0.01 et seq., and this section is not intended to be an indemnification of Metra’s or its employees’ own negligence to the extent such indemnification would be in violation of such provisions.
The Kansas Comparative Negligence Act abolished joint and several liability, contribution among tortfeasors, and active/passive negligence, but permits modified implied comparative indemnity where a tortfeasor settles with the plaintiff for the full amount and proceeds after the other tortfeasors in the chain of distribution in product liability cases or contracting parties in construction defect cases.