What “Comparative Negligence” Means
Comparative negligence is the general doctrine that a plaintiff’s own carelessness reduces (rather than eliminates) their recovery. Texas applies the “modified” version with a 51% bar: recover with damages reduced by your fault percentage at 50% or below; recover nothing at 51% or above.
Why It Matters in Your Texas Case
In practice, comparative negligence arguments appear in nearly every contested Texas claim: the pedestrian “darted out,” the rider was “speeding,” the customer “should have seen” the spill. Each argument is worth real money to the insurer, which is why McKay Law litigates percentages with the same rigor as liability itself — expert reconstruction, human-factors analysis, and premises standards that put fault where the evidence says it belongs. A claim valued honestly starts with fault assigned honestly.
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