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>Negligence is the failure to behave with the level of care that a reasonable person would have exercised under the same circumstances.
When people are injured or killed due to negligence, lawsuits can recover financial compensation from negligent parties.
If someone were to be killed in a stadium by lightning when the National Weather Service provided advance warning of lightning and the stadium failed to instruct everyone to take shelter, a lawyer could very easily convince a jury that the decision not to instruct everyone to take shelter was negligent.
If this were to occur, the stadium would lose a multi-million-dollar wrongful death lawsuit. Possibly several of them, as a lightning strike could kill multiple people in a crowd.
What they did was standard lawsuit-avoiding procedure. Simple as.