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Negligent Entrustment of a Vehicle

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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.

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Assumption of the risk:

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require the defendant establish the plaintiff knew the risk, appreciated the risk, and voluntarily encountered it anyways.

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Admission of evidence of a similar occurrence

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To be admissible, evidence must be relevant; it must have a tendency to make any material fact more or less probable from its admission.

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MD exception to allow similar occurrences although not at the same time

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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.

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