Is a defendant liable for the resulting damage to a plaintiff who was injured in a motor vehicle accident as a result of the accident?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Jordan v. Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Ry. Co., 934 F.2d 225 (9th Cir. 1991):
It is a settled principle of tort law that when a defendant's wrongful act causes injury, he is fully liable for the resulting damage even though the injured plaintiff had a preexisting condition that made the consequences of the wrongful act more severe than they would have been for a normal victim. The defendant takes the plaintiff as he finds him.
Maurer v. United States, 668 F.2d 98, 99-100 (2d Cir.1981).
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