If you own your own business you may be used to doing all of the work yourself, bookkeeping, taxes, inventory, etc. Perhaps you enjoy the tasks, or like to be involved in every facet of your company, and this involvement isn’t necessarily a bad thing. But when it comes to legal issues your business may be facing, a DIY approach …
At one time most states in the U.S. had contributory negligence statutes. These statutes stated that if a person was even 1% at fault for an accident he could not recover damages from another party. Recognizing the intrinsic unfairness of these statutes, 46 of the 50 states have replaced contributory negligence with comparative negligence statutes. There are 3 types of …