Negligence: Case Law

The high school football team practiced in the gym due to rain. He head coach called all of the assistants from the gym for a brief meeting, telling the students to run laps. While running, two boys bump one another and a fight ensues. One boy receives a broken nose in the incident, and his parents informed the coach they will sue him for negligence because he was not in the gym when the fight broke out.

There are four questions that will be used to determine if the coach in this situation was or was not negligent: 1) Did the coach exh

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