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No "Professional” Standard of Care
To Find Negligence on Bike Tour
Court says safety standards are not outside
the common understanding of the jury
When a participant in a cross-country bicycle tour was hit by a car and killed during the ride, his estate sued both the driver of the car and the nonprofit tour association that organized and sponsored the tour for negligence. The association argued that the case should be dismissed against it because the plaintiff had not provided expert testimony that it had violated the professional standard of care for tour organizers. A federal District Court in Washington has disagreed. (Nedeau v. Armstrong, E.D. WA, No. CV-09-0189, 3/8/11.)
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