A neighbor slips on an icy sidewalk in front of your house,resulting in $500 of medical bills.The court rules that the accident had a 20% chance of occurring.Under a negligence standard,you will be held liable for damages if removing the ice from the sidewalk would have cost you less than

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Under the negligence standard, a person is held liable for damages if it can be proved that they had a duty of care, breached that duty, and that breach caused injury or damages to another person. In this scenario, the court has already ruled that there was a 20% chance of the accident occurring due to the icy sidewalk in front of the defendant's house. Therefore, the defendant had a duty of care to remove the ice from the sidewalk to prevent any accidents from happening. If the cost of removing the ice from the sidewalk was less than the damages caused, then the defendant would be held liable for the damages. Since the damages were $500 and the probability of the accident occurring was 20%, the cost of removing the ice would need to be less than $100 ($500 x 20% = $100) for the defendant to not be held liable for damages. Therefore, the best choice is option B.

A Neighbor Slips on an Icy Sidewalk in Front of Your