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From: hollombe@ttidcc.UUCP (Jerry Hollombe)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: RE: Re: seatbelts
Message-ID: <192@ttidcc.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 21-Jan-85 18:59:45 EST
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>From: doug@terak.UUCP (Doug Pardee)
>Subject: Re: seat belts
>Message-ID: <266@terak.UUCP>
>
>> She is presently suing me over this accident.  I often wonder
>> how hurt she would have been if she had been wearing her seat belt.
>
>That's the answer!  If courts would recognize the failure to wear
>a seatbelt as "not taking appropriate precautions" (there must be
>some legaleze phrase) and then reduced or discarded any injury claims,
>things might change a bit.  Especially if insurance companies took
>the same attitude toward their clients.

The legal principle involved is known as  "contributory  negligence".  It's
already  part of the law in some states and injury claims can be reduced or
discarded because of it.
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