B.__"Fault" includes acts or omissions that are in any measure negligent or reckless toward person or property, or that subject a party to strict tort liability.__"Fault" also includes breach of warranty, unreasonable assumption of risk not constituting an enforceable express consent, misuse of a product for which a party otherwise would be liable and an unreasonable failure to avoid harm.

In determining relative fault, in percentages or otherwise, the trier of fact shall consider both the nature of the conduct of each party at fault and the extent of the causal relation between the conduct and the damages claimed.__Legal requirements for causal relation apply both to fault as the basis for liability and to contributory fault.

3.__Harm.__"Harm" means injury, death, damage or loss sufficient to sustain a legal action based on fault.

4.__Plaintiff.__"Plaintiff" means a party entitled to make a claim for damages regardless of whether suit is actually filed and regardless of the procedure by which the claim may be asserted in court, including, but not limited to, in a counterclaim or cross-claim.

5.__Parties.__In addition to the plaintiff, "parties" means those who are, at the time that plaintiff's right of action accrues, potentially liable on the basis of fault to pay damages either to the plaintiff directly or in contribution to another for the same harm.__"Parties" includes not only those who are before the court but also those who might without immunity have been brought before a court with jurisdiction to impose a fault- based award for the plaintiff's harm.

6.__Right of contribution.__"Right of contribution means the sharing of a loss or payment by 2 or more parties.

7.__Tortfeasor.__"Tortfeasor" means a party liable on the basis of fault to pay damages either to the plaintiff directly or in contribution to another for the same harm.__"Tortfeasor" includes a party whose fault-based liability arises in contract from breach of warranty or the like.

§182.__Effect of plaintiff's fault

1.__Bar.__In a claim for harm that results partly from fault attributable to the plaintiff and partly from fault attributable