Chapter 27 - § 27.2 • ELEMENTS

• Jurisdiction: Colorado

§ 27.2 • ELEMENTS

"A negligence claim has four elements: [1] a duty owed by the defendant to the plaintiff; [2] a breach of that duty; [3] injury to the plaintiff; and [4] a proximate cause relationship between the breach and the injury."⁹

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^[9] Bedee v. American Med. Response of Colorado, 2015 COA 128, ¶ 11; see also HealthONE v. Rodriguez, 50 P.3d 879 (Colo. 2002); Martinez v. Lewis, 969 P.2d 213 (Colo. 1998). See also CJI-Civ. 9:1 and 9:6 (CLE ed. 2018) (describing the elements and defining negligence in lay language).