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    Default Impact of Mental Incompetence on Liability for Damages

    My question involves business law in the state of: Maryland or D.C.

    Does one's mental incompetence reduce in any manner or way his liability for damages, either actual damages or punitive damages?

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    Default Re: Impact of Mental Incompetence on Liability for Damages

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    My question involves business law in the state of: Maryland or D.C.

    Does one's mental incompetence reduce in any manner or way his liability for damages, either actual damages or punitive damages?
    Maybe...but it would be very fact specific, of which you have given, none.

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    Default Re: Impact of Mental Incompetence on Liability for Damages

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    My question involves business law in the state of: Maryland or D.C.

    Does one's mental incompetence reduce in any manner or way his liability for damages, either actual damages or punitive damages?
    23 questions in 2.5 months.

    http://www.expertlaw.com/forums/sear...vBForum_Thread

    You're either having a colossal run of bad luck or your questions are all hypothetical.

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    Default Re: Impact of Mental Incompetence on Liability for Damages

    Isn't law school out for the summer?

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    Default Re: Impact of Mental Incompetence on Liability for Damages

    You've not specified what you mean by "damages". Mentally incompetent people are generally held accountable for the harm the cause. That's the price for living in society as opposed to being institutionalized. It might mitigate the issue of punitive damages, but not necessarily.

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