What is Strict Liability and what does it mean?
Strict Liability is a legal doctrine referring to absolute legal responsibility for an injury that can be imposed on the “wrongdoer” without proof of carelessness or fault. As a Gainesville Dog Bite Lawyer, what is unique about Strict Liability is that a person does not have to be found careless, or at-fault, or negligent for something that happened that caused harm to another. In short it means that in certain types of cases, you can be held liable or responsible for something even if you did nothing wrong, there does not need to be proof of negligence when strict liability is applied in the case. The bottom line is that in most cases there are defenses available to the claim of negligence as in accident or slip and fall cases. However, where there is strict liability, there are no defenses. Strict Liability is most commonly seen in dog bite cases, and product liability lawsuits for defectively manufactured products. In dog bites the owner of the dog is responsible or liable even if i
