Idaho Code
Chapter 8 - ACTIONS FOR NEGLIGENCE
Section 6-801 - COMPARATIVE NEGLIGENCE OR COMPARATIVE RESPONSIBILITY — EFFECT OF CONTRIBUTORY NEGLIGENCE.

6-801. COMPARATIVE NEGLIGENCE OR COMPARATIVE RESPONSIBILITY — EFFECT OF CONTRIBUTORY NEGLIGENCE. Contributory negligence or comparative responsibility shall not bar recovery in an action by any person or his legal representative to recover damages for negligence, gross negligence or comparative responsibility resulting in death or in injury to person or property, if such negligence or comparative responsibility was not as great as the negligence, gross negligence or comparative responsibility of the person against whom recovery is sought, but any damages allowed shall be diminished in the proportion to the amount of negligence or comparative responsibility attributable to the person recovering. Nothing contained herein shall create any new legal theory, cause of action, or legal defense.

History:
[6-801, added 1971, ch. 186, sec. 1, p. 862; am. 1987, ch. 278, sec. 2, p. 577.]

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Idaho Code

Title 6 - ACTIONS IN PARTICULAR CASES

Chapter 8 - ACTIONS FOR NEGLIGENCE

Section 6-801 - COMPARATIVE NEGLIGENCE OR COMPARATIVE RESPONSIBILITY — EFFECT OF CONTRIBUTORY NEGLIGENCE.

Section 6-802 - VERDICT GIVING PERCENTAGE OF NEGLIGENCE OR COMPARATIVE RESPONSIBILITY ATTRIBUTABLE TO EACH PARTY.

Section 6-803 - CONTRIBUTION AMONG JOINT TORTFEASORS — DECLARATION OF RIGHT — EXCEPTION — LIMITED JOINT AND SEVERAL LIABILITY.

Section 6-804 - COMMON LAW LIABILITIES PRESERVED.

Section 6-805 - EFFECT OF RELEASE OF ONE TORTFEASOR ON LIABILITY OF OTHERS.

Section 6-806 - EFFECT OF RELEASE OF ONE TORTFEASOR ON HIS LIABILITY FOR CONTRIBUTION TO OTHERS — LIMITS ON APPLICATION OF SECTION.

Section 6-807 - LIMITATION ON THE RECOVERY OF DAMAGES — REDUCING OR INCREASING AN AWARD.

Section 6-808 - CIVIL IMMUNITY FOR SELF-DEFENSE.