Law

Proximate Cause: Plaintiff's Employer and Its Post-'Burlington' Role in the Duty To Defend ...

In this article, Laura B. Dowgin and Thomas J. Maroney discuss the 'Burlington Insurance v. NYC Transit Authority' case and how case law regarding the duty to defend has been affected since the ...
JD Supra

Lack of Proximate Cause Dooms Plaintiff's Appeal of Adverse Summary Judgment

The Washington Court of Appeals held that when the facts are undisputed, proximate cause is an issue of law to be decided by the court. The plaintiff alleged his former attorney failed to send him a ...
JD Supra

Texas Supreme Court Reverses Nuclear Verdict Based on a Lack of Proximate Causation

In December 2014, Trey Salinas was driving an F-350 pickup with passengers Jennifer Blake and her three children in Odessa, Texas. A winter weather advisory was issued warning that ice could ...
Law

Proximate Cause, Threshold Injury and Scope of Duty Take Center Court

Jeffrey S. Lichtman and Richard A. Menchini, partners at O'Hare Parnagian, review personal injury decisions that provide valuable guidance to the practitioner tasked with developing a strategy in ...
Reason

Second Amendment Roundup: Supreme Court Should Resolve Proximate Cause in S&W v. Mexico

As I posted here, the March 4 oral argument in Smith & Wesson Brands v. Estados Unidos Mexicanos appeared to go well for S&W and not well for Mexico. Mexico's lawsuit seeks to hold America's federally ...