Uncertain causation in medical liability /

"'Proving' the cause of the plaintiff's or claimant's injury in personal injury litigation often entails significant challenges, particularly when science cannot identify the cause of a biological phenomenon or when the nature of this cause is debatable. This problem is freq...

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Main Author: Khoury, Lara.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; Portland, Or. : Hart, 2006.
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Table of Contents:
  • Problems in the proof of causation
  • Flexibility
  • Reversal of the burden of proving causation
  • Probabilistic assessment of damages
  • Inferences of causation.