Negligence is not a tort in itself, rather it is a legal concept within the law of torts. Understanding Negligence.When people are negligent, it means they have acted or behaved in a careless way that caused injury or harm to another person. For instance, a grocery store that fails to clean up a known leak on the floor may be held negligent for a shopper's resulting slip-and-fall injuries. The Massachusetts Tort Claims Act (MTCA) governs tort claims against the state government for its employees' negligence. The tort threshold, which governs the ability to maintain a claim for bodily injury beyond the recovery available under PIP, including for pain and suffering, PLF must prove that, more likely than not, DFT was grossly negligent. When another party causes an injury due to negligence, they may be financially liable for the victim's economic and non-economic damages. The MTCA also lays out specific situations where a negligence lawsuit is allowed. Many torts are due to acts of negligence.
