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DRAFT FOR ATTORNEY REVIEW — NOT FINAL

Section 34-18-2

Citation
Section 34-18-2
Parent Document
Errico v. LaMountain, 713 A.2d 791 (1998)
Jurisdiction
Rhode Island (state)
Effective Date
1998-06-19

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This approach disavows an earlier requirement of first having to .establish a defendant’s exclusive control of the premises for the doctrine of res ipsa loquitur to apply, thus parting company with Rhode Island’s former rule that a plaintiff had to demonstrate that the defendant at the time of the accident exclusively controlled the instrumentality of the plaintiff’s injury. Parrillo, 426 A.2d at 1320; see also Marshall,