What is Negligent Misrepresentation?
Where a person does not lie directly (saying something knowing it to be untrue), but has made a statement about a subject with carelessness and no reason to believe it to be fact, which results in harm to the plaintiff, this may be the tort of negligent misrepresentation.
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