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The ‘proximate cause’ doctrine

My friend caused a vehicular accident and hit a 5-year-old boy who was then unsupervised by his parents. My question is simple: can we shift the liability to the parents of the boy, who were negligent ...
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 ...
Law

Proximate Cause in Contract? A Mistake New York Courts Can Avoid

Proximate Cause in Contract? A Mistake New York Courts Can Avoid Ethan Leib, Professor at Fordham Law School, argues that that New York courts mistakenly apply the tort concept of “proximate cause” to ...
Post Independent Citizen Telegram

Whiting column: Problems and proximate cause

The initial step to a solution is correctly identifying the problem. If the true nature of a problem isn’t determined, any implemented solution will be ineffective. So obvious, it can precipitate a ...
JD Supra

Texas Supreme Court Narrows Employer Liability and Explains Standard for Proximate Cause

The case arose from a tragic 2014 highway collision near Odessa, Texas. Trey Salinas, driving a Ford F-350 with four passengers, lost control on an icy interstate, crossed a 42-foot-wide median, and ...
JD Supra

Kentucky Court of Appeals soft launches a hard change to proximate cause

In Jena Lhotsky v. Guy Sutcliffe, No. 2024-CA-1521-MR (Ky. Ct. App. Oct. 17, 2025), a recently published opinion, the Kentucky Court of Appeals proposed a substantial change to how courts across the ...
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 ...