What “Liability” Means
Liability is legal responsibility for harm — the conclusion that a party’s conduct (or a status the law assigns, like an employer’s responsibility for employees acting in the course of work) obligates them to pay damages.
Why It Matters in Your Texas Case
Real cases usually hold layered liability: a driver and their employer; a store, its management company, and a contractor; a bar and a drunk driver. Texas law follows control and relationship — respondeat superior for employers, nondelegable duties for property owners, dram shop responsibility for overservers — and McKay Law’s defendant-mapping follows every layer to its coverage. Liability isn’t just who did it; it’s everyone the law makes answerable, because that’s what funds full recovery.
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