Bjorndal v. Weitman

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• noting that Uniform Civil Jury Instruction 20.03 states that if “the defendant proves by a preponderance of the evidence that the defendant was acting as a reasonably careful person in the circumstances” negligence per se does not apply
• “[T]he usual instruction on negligence sufficiently covers what a reasonably prudent person would do under all cir- cumstances, including those of sudden emergency.”
• “[T]he negligence standard focuses on whether a person acted with reasonable care to avoid harm to others, in light of all the circumstances, including any ‘emergency.’ ”
• “A person is negligent if the person fails to exercise reasonable care, a standard that ‘is measured by what a reasonable person of ordinary pru- dence would, or would not, do in the same or similar circum- stances.”

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