Sims v. General Telephone & Electronics

How courts have described this case

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

• determining that the appellants may have breached duty to exercise reasonable care when a jury could conclude that the appellants’ behavior was “unreasonable under the circumstances”
• concluding an employer owned a duty of care to employees to make safe a hazardous machine in the workplace
• noting that legal, or proximate, causation is a required element of any negligence claim
• “In non-construction situations such as this case, however, this court has taken a much more fact-specific approach to the problem. See, e.g., Meers v. Haughton Elevator, 101 Nev. 283, 285 n.3, 701 P.2d 1006, 1007 n.3 (1985

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).