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Negligent Entrustment of a Vehicle
A parent or employee may be held liable for the torts committed by a person they lend an automobile to under the theory of negligent entrustment. In a negligent entrustment with an automobile case, a person with reason to believe another person would fail to operate an automobile safely will be held liable for the torts committed by the driver.
Assumption of the risk:
require the defendant establish the plaintiff knew the risk, appreciated the risk, and voluntarily encountered it anyways.
Admission of evidence of a similar occurrence
To be admissible, evidence must be relevant; it must have a tendency to make any material fact more or less probable from its admission.
MD exception to allow similar occurrences although not at the same time
evidence of similar occurrences that are related to the event at issue, which help to show that the defendant had notice of a dangerous situation or that a common instrumentality was used in the injuries.