Topic
Causation
438 published works
The Faculty Lounge
Calling All Torts Professors: Does Veterans Law Have a Coherent Theory of Proximate Cause?
The essence of veterans law is providing compensation for conditions that are related to military service. Does the system have a consistent approach to proximate causation? I am not so…
TortsProf Blog
Weinrib Speaking on Causation in Negligence Law
Professor Ernest Weinrib, Cecil A Wright Professor of Law at the University of Toronto, will be speaking at Macquarie Law School in Sydney, Australia, on the topic of 'Causal Uncertainty…
Property Insurance Coverage Insights
Causation Issue Involving Nominal Cause Addressed By First Circuit Opinion Under Massachusetts Law
In Stor/Gard, Inc. v. Strathmore Ins. Co., No. 12-1650, 2013 U.S. App. LEXIS 11015 (1st Cir. May 31, 2013), the First Circuit rejected the notion that a 2% contribution to…
Drug & Device Law
Big Sky Beat Down
We read rulings under the Federal Tort Claim Act about as often as we read bench trial rulings or rulings from the District of Montana. Or rulings where a judge says he is…
Drug & Device Law
Breaking News – Opinion Reversing $6.5 Million Actos Verdict
By Bexis
We saw this morning that the boxcar California verdict that was being ballyhooed the last couple of days was reversed by the trial judge granting a nonsuit (the California equivalent…
Sentencing Law and Policy
SCOTUS grants cert on federal criminal law causation issues
Main April 29, 2013SCOTUS grants cert on federal criminal law causation issues The Supreme Court, despite having one of it members on the DL, gets a new week started with…
InsureReinsure
UK: Causation and Inherent Vice: Court of Appeal Dismisses Appeal in Ace European Group Ltd v Chartis Insurance UK Ltd [2013] EWCA Civ 224
This case concerned which one of two insurers was liable for the losses caused by damage to economiser blocks which were to be incorporated in two boilers on a new…
Drug & Device Law
Aredia/Zometa Produces an Opinion on the Learned Intermediary Doctrine, Comment k, and Warranty Claims
The Aredia/Zometa case of Guenther v. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Inc., 2013 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 50945 (M.D. Fl. Apr. 9, 2013), produced another interesting decision last week. Not necessarily good, but interesting. …
TortsProf Blog
JOTWELL Torts: Sebok on Oberdiek–“Are Risks Wrong?”
Over at JOTWELL, Tony Sebok (Cardozo) reviews The Moral Significance of Risking by John Oberdiek (Rutgers-Camden).--CJR
TortsProf Blog
James Beck: “Using Reott’s Shiny New Strict Liability Defense”
In Reott v. Asia Trend, Inc., 55 A.3d 1088 (Pa. 2012), the Pennsylvania Supreme Court once again dodged the existential question of Second versus Third Restatement, because the plaintiff’s…