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DRAFT FOR ATTORNEY REVIEW — NOT FINAL

Gore v. People's Savings Bank, 235 Conn. 360 (1995)

Citation
Gore v. People's Savings Bank, 235 Conn. 360 (1995)
Parent Document
Gore v. People's Savings Bank, 235 Conn. 360 (1995)
Jurisdiction
Connecticut (state)
Effective Date
1995-10-10

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“Negligence per se operates to engraft a particular legislative standard onto the general standard of care imposed by traditional tort law principles, i.e., that standard of care to which an ordinarily prudent person would conform his conduct. To establish negligence, the jury in a negligence per se case need not decide whether the defendant acted as an ordinarily prudent person would have acted under the circumstances. They merely decide whether the relevant statute or regulation has been violated. If it has, the defendant was negligent as a matter of law. See Prosser, [supra] § 36.” Wendland v. Ridgefield Construction Services, Inc., 184 Conn. 173, 178, 439 A.2d 954 (1981).