Annette drove through an intersection without looking and hit Vincent's car that he had driven into the intersection without obeying a stop sign. Annette sued Vincent. The jury found that Annette’s fault contributed 20 percent to the collision and determined that her total loss was $100,000. Under comparative negligence, the jury should award Annette:

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This question presents a comparative negligence scenario where Annette sued Vincent after a collision, and the jury assigned 20% fault to Annette and 80% fault to Vincent, with Annette’s total losses amounting to $100,000.

First, recall the basic principle: in pure comparative negligence, the plaintiff’s recovery is reduced by the percentage of fault attributed to the plaintiff. The defendant (or defendants) is responsible for the portion of damages equal to their own percentage of fault, while the plaintiff bears the remainder of their own fault.

Here, Annette is at 20% fault. That means she bears 20% of her own damages, and Vincent would be responsible for the remaining 80% of those damages, assuming Vincent is the other tortfeasor and there are no other complicating factors.

Calculating the award: 80% of $100,000 equals $80,000. This represents the amount Annette would recover from Vincent after its application of comparative negligence.

Now, regarding the missing answer options: since the answer options list is empty, there is no alternative choice to evaluate. However, the core computation under pure comparative negligence clearly yields 80% of the total damages, which is $80,000.

To summarize the reasoning for why the $80,000 figure arises: (1) identify the plaintiff’s fault share (Annette’s 20%), (2) apply the rule that plaintiff’s recovery equals total damages minus plaintiff’s fault portion, which is equivalent to multiplying damages by (1 - 0.20) = 0.80, (3) compute 0.80 × $100,000 = $80,000, (4) interpret that Vincent would owe Annette $80,000 to satisfy the verdict, given the comparative negligence framework.

If one were to consider alternative tort schemes (for example, contributory negligence without any recovery when the plaintiff is at fault, or a framework that apportions liability differently), the result could diverge. But under pure comparative negligence, the calculation leading to $80,000 is the standard approach.

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