Topic
Causation
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Drug & Device Law
Another Accutane “Causality” Win
By Bexis
The Accutane guys are on a roll. We posted last month about the defense win on Daubert in the Accutane MDL, and before that about the order excluding "relatedness assessments"…
North Carolina Product Liability Blog
Causation Queries & Pre-complaint Negotiation
By Law Office of D. Hardison Wood
We recently settled a case involving a product defect with a peculiar mechanism of injury. I say peculiar because until our case, the defendant manufacturer purportedly had never received a…
Traumatic Brain Injury Law Blog
American Association for Justice National Conference
On Friday, June 15, 2007, I had the pleasure of presenting "Proof and Argument of Causation and Damages in the Mild to Moderate Traumatic Brain Injury Case," for the Idaho…
Drug & Device Law
Statistics and Similar Occurrences
By Bexis
Bexis spotted this one – because he’s compulsive and checks the Pennsylvania Supreme Court website every morning to see if any of his half-dozen pending matters have been decided. For…
Drug & Device Law
“Relatedness” assessments (In re Accutane)
By Bexis
Patients taking prescription drugs sometimes have bad reactions. Was the reaction caused by the drug, or was it mere coincidence? Was the nausea caused not by the drug, but by…
New York Attorney Malpractice Blog
Georgia Legal Malpractice Causation Case
Paul et al. v. Smith, Gambrell & Russell, et al., ___S.E.2d___, 2007 WL 474185 (Ga. App. 2007) . Hinshaw report tells us: "The Georgia Court of Appeals held that the…
Mass Tort Litigation Blog
Blog Roundup
By joetort
Drug and Device Law Blog has an interesting post on causation in failure-to-warn cases, and another post elaborating after reader comment.TortsProf Blog flags another story on Zyprexa from Alex Berenson…
Drug & Device Law
Reader Response to “Shouting ‘Credibility'”
By Bexis
Last Tuesday, April 17, we posted about "Shouting 'Credibility' and Praying for Trial." Our position was this: If the treating physician says that he already knew about a drug's risks,…
Drug & Device Law
Shouting “Credibility” And Praying For Trial
By Bexis
Hypothesize a car crash case. The only witness says that the light was red. The party with the burden of proving that the light was green cannot possibly prevail, so…
British Columbia Insurance Blog
Causation in medical malpractice cases
Causation in medical malpractice cases is rarely straightforward and typically requires specialist to comment on current medical issues and research. This is a paper that summarizes the law on causation…