Understanding Negligence: Essential Components for Validating a Claim of Negligence In legal parlance, negligence typically refers to a party’s failure to exercise the level of care expected under the circumstances, thereby causing harm to another party. This concept is a key component in many civil lawsuits, especially in cases involving personal injury. To arrive at a successful lawsuit for negligence, four critical components must be established as a fact. 1. Duty of Care To make a valid claim of negligence, the first component you must establish is the defendant’s duty of care towards the injured party. This means that the defendant was obligated in some way to act with a…