The court's
analysis on causation and remoteness considered whether Deloitte's negligence caused Livent's losses, and whether these losses were reasonably foreseeable.
Not exact matches
However, the two researchers acknowledged in a 2007 Boston Globe story that while «students involved in the arts do better in school and
on their SATs than those who are not involved... correlation isn't
causation, and an
analysis we did several years ago showed no evidence that arts training actually causes scores to rise.»
In addition to the issues Rob raised regarding
causation, point 4 of the consensus statement as articulated
on RealClimate implies a cost benefit
analysis, and requires an assessment of what level of harm / damage is unacceptable, and an assessment of the cost and likelihood of avoiding it.
In Volume 2, Forensic Science, we have compiled a science / medical reference with hard - to - find data
on injury and injury mechanism topics, to prove
causation and damages for a variety of crash types and crash injuries, including epidemiology, injury risk by crash type, injury pattern
analysis, biomechanics, and more.
[65] In my view, the trial judge's error is found in the chain of inferences that he identifies in the following critical passages of his reasons:... [66] The trial judge's
causation analysis hinges
on his view that it «is a matter of common sense that the negligence or delay
on the part of the defendants allowed the wound to reach a complicated state and lead to rapid unpredictable consequences».
7 The second is a proximate
causation argument, which would be identical to a
causation analysis on a negligence based claim.8
In the FSCO Appeal Decision of State Farm and Sabadash (P16 - 00029), Director's Delegate Evans conducts a thorough
analysis of the key jurisprudence
on causation in Canada of the key
causation decisions: Athey v. Leonati (1996 S.C.C.), Resurfice Corp v. Hanke (2007 S.C.C.).
In the FSCO Appeal Decision of State Farm and Sabadash (P16 - 00029), Director's Delegate Evans conducts a thorough
analysis of the key jurisprudence
on causation in Canada of the key
causation...
In any event, it seems a safe guess that the Clements
analysis will spread to other areas of law which have
causation requirements, to the extent permitted by the judiciary's views
on the principles governing those other areas.
While the SCC rejected the details of the Clements
analysis of Resurfice material contribution, the SCC seems to have accepted the BCCA explanation that Resurfice material contribution is not a test for factual
causation but a policy — based approach that, in certain circumstances, will permit the courts to hold the caausation requirements of the cause of action have been satisfied notwithsanding that factual
causation has not been established
on the balance of probability.
Kellie, any thoughts
on preparing a summary of whatever evidence is available from Factor
Analysis, as opposed to simply talking about simple correlations which don't of course — as you'd know — tell us much about actual
causation of the differences?
Although based
on a cross sectional
analysis, and thus
causation can not be proven, these findings are intriguing and may have important social policy and treatment implications.
Some families may perceive cause - effect
analyses as attempts to allocate blame to one or more individuals, with the effect that for many families a focus
on causation is of little or no clinical utility.