A baseball batter was struck with a pitched ball directly in the orbit of the right eye and fell immediately to the ground. The coach ran to the player to examine
the eye. There was some immediate swelling and discoloration around the orbit;
however, the eye appeared to be normal. The player insisted that he was fine and
told the coach that he could continue to bat. After the game, the coach told the
athlete to go back to his room, put ice on his eye, and check in tomorrow. That
night the baseball player began to hemorrhage into the anterior chamber of the
eye and suffered irreparable damage to his eye. An ophthalmologist stated that if
the athlete's eye had been examined immediately after injury, the bleeding could
have been controlled and the athlete would not have suffered any damage to his
vision. If the athlete brings a lawsuit against the coach, what must he prove to
win a judgement?
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