Causation

Jun 24, 2025

Plaintiff obtains $100,000 settlement in motor vehicle collision, despite second accident

Plaintiff secures $100K settlement after a car accident, despite complications from a second crash and conflicting ER records on knee injury.

Apr 6, 2020

Negligence: Exposure to Asbestos-Causation

Where the family of a man who died from asbestosis sued the manufacturer of asbestos-containing boilers, which the man inspected as part of his job, the summary judgment record presented […]

Nov 18, 2019

Workers’ Compensation: SIF Liability-Causation-Tinnitus

Where a claimant challenged the denial of his claim for permanent total disability, sufficient competent evidence supported the finding that the work-related accident was not the prevailing factor in causing […]

Sep 17, 2019

Negligence: Premises Liability-Fire Deaths-Causation

Where plaintiffs sued a city housing authority and its director and insurer after a woman and her four children died from smoke inhalation in an apartment kitchen fire, summary judgment […]

Apr 22, 2019

Employment Law: Compensable Injury-Causation-Inherent Risk

Where a hospital employer challenged an award of permanent partial disability to an employee for a wrist injury she suffered in a fall at work, the commission did not […]

Nov 3, 2018

Bankruptcy: Investment Loss- Consent Order- Causation

Where appellant investors challenged an order dismissing their adversary complaint in a Chapter 7 case, the judgment is affirmed because the bankruptcy court did not err in finding that no […]

Oct 31, 2018

Negligence: Medical Malpractice- Expert Testimony- Causation

Where a plaintiff in a medical-malpractice case claimed that defendant anesthesiologists negligently administered an incorrect dose of morphine that caused her to suffer injuries including sleepiness, depression and an inability […]

Jun 5, 2018