Negligence is the failure to exercise a reasonable degree of care, resulting in an unintended injury to another party. It is the failure to take the sort of action a reasonable person would take under the same circumstances. Negligence is characterized by carelessness, inattentiveness or a disregard for another's safety. Negligence is different from an intentional tort.
Negligence is a 'legal cause' of damage if it directly and in natural and continuous sequence produces or contributes substantially to producing such damage, so it can reasonably be said that if not for the negligence, the loss, injury or damage would not have occurred. Negligence may be a legal cause of damage even though it operates in combination with the act of another, a natural cause, or some other cause if the other cause occurs at the same time as the negligence and if the negligence contributes substantially to producing such damage. In cases involving allegedly defective, unreasonably dangerous products, the manufacturer may be liable even though it exercised all reasonable care in the design, manufacture and sale of the product in question.
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