John Keegan v. Anchor Inns, Inc.

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• construing Virgin Islands law and concluding that the Virgin Islands comparative negligence statute, virtually identical to Pennsylvania's, abrogates assumption of risk
• examining the history of express and implied assumption of risk and its place in modern frameworks of comparative negligence
• noting the comparative negligence statute “remove[d] the absolute bar to recovery imposed by the doctrine of contributory negligence and replace[d] it with a scheme for apportioning fault between the plaintiff and the defendant”

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