• 2003 - Duty to Assist
  • C-3.12
    • Motor Vehicles
    • Tort Liability
    • Tort Liability

  • A person who knows, or has reason to know, that one’s conduct, whether wrongful or innocent, has caused harm to another, has a duty to render assistance to prevent further harm.

     

    A person who breaches this duty is responsible for any additional harm proximately caused by the breach.

    • South v. Nat’l R.R. Passenger Corp., 290 NW2d 819 (ND 1980)
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