A jury's verdict of no negligence in a workplace slip and fall case will not be set aside where the employer had some system of precautions in place (mats, warning sign, cleaner), even if that system fell short of perfection, because the standard of reasonableness is a matter for the jury's collective wisdom and experience. Where a plaintiff's return to work claim involves multiple alleged incidents of negligence and the medical evidence on causation is expressed at a high level of generality without linking specific incidents to psychiatric injury, the jury may reasonably find negligence but not causation.
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