Carvalho v. Toll Bros. and Developers

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• finding that a duty could fairly be imposed on an engineering firm in part because the harm at issue arose from a situation that fell within the engineer’s “explicit responsibilities”
• describing foreseeability as a \crucial element in determining whether imposition of a duty on an alleged tortfeasor is appropriate\
• imposing a duty on a general contractor where a subcontractor’s employee was injured by a collapsing trench wall in part because the general contractor knew that trenches in other areas of the jobsite had collapsed multiple times several days before the accident

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).