Ethan Leib, Professor at Fordham Law School, argues that that New York courts mistakenly apply the tort concept of “proximate cause” to contract law and calls upon the New York Court of ...

Nonetheless, recent decisions have been sharply divided over whether sole proximate cause is a jury question in §240 cases. For example, in Barreto v.

In that sense, the liquidation of ETFs might be a proximate - i.e., immediate or near-term - cause of the decline in the values of most index components.

And the proximate cause of an injury is that cause which, in natural and continuous sequence, unbroken by any efficient intervening cause, produces the injury, and without which the result would ...

"Each appellate court has rejected common-law formulations of proximate cause of the kind CSX requested in this case." The high court defined FELA liability in the 1957 case Rogers v. Missouri Pacific ...

“Tough luck.” The proximate cause concept can work against you, as in the case of this man’s Range Rover, but it can also work in your favor. Three examples: Many people do not carry fire coverage on ...