Q: What is comparative negligence?

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A: Comparative negligence is an issue when the person injured in an accident may bear some responsibility for causing the accident.  An example of this would be in a car crash where you are injured, but you were also partly responsible for the wreck.  Say a jury awards you $100,000 for all of your damages, but finds that you were 20 percent responsible, and the other party was 80 percent responsible.  You would receive $80,000 of the $100,000 verdict. 

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