Question

Which of the following situations could result in a successful action for negligence?

A) A doctor prescribes the wrong medication, but the patient doesn’t take it.
B) An architect provides incorrect measurements for a building project, but no construction occurs.
C) A company fails to repair a broken elevator, resulting in no injuries or accidents.
D) An employee of the bank mistakenly writes to Sean, leading him to make contracts he cannot fulfillWhen the bank refuses to provide the promised loan, causing Sean a loss of $100,000 due to the bank's carelessness.

Answer 1

The situation with the bank employee's mistake (D) could result in a successful action for negligence as it shows a duty of care, breach, causation, and damages.

Step-by-step explanation:

Among the provided situations, the one that could result in a successful action for negligence is D) An employee of the bank mistakenly writes to Sean, leading him to make contracts he cannot fulfill. When the bank refuses to provide the promised loan, causing Sean a loss of $100,000 due to the bank's carelessness, this is indicative of potential negligence. To establish a negligence claim, the plaintiff must show that there was a duty of care owed, a breach of that duty, actual causation, proximate causation, and damages resulting from that breach. In this situation, the bank had a duty to provide accurate information, and the provision of incorrect information that Sean relied upon could be seen as a breach of this duty. The bank's error was the actual cause of Sean making the unfulfillable contracts and proximately caused his financial loss, thereby fulfilling the criteria for negligence.