Sentences with phrase «as medical causation»

The same is true for issues such as medical causation: is a particular medical condition directly related to your accident.

Not exact matches

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The authors say that the higher risk of type 2 diabetes associated with decreasing coffee intake may represent a true change in risk, or may potentially be due to reverse causation whereby those with medical conditions associated with risk for type 2 diabetes (such as high blood pressure, elevated cholesterol, cardiovascular disease, cancer) may reduce their coffee consumption after diagnosis.

As a likely response to the avoidability of the brachial plexus injury and the consequent lawsuits for the deviations from the standard of care by the delivering health care professional, beginning in the late 1990s, medical researchers looking for ways to defend against the claims began developing an alternative causation theory for obstetric brachial plexus injuries.

An absence of appropriate medical support as regards to diagnosis or causation may be fatal.

They need an understanding of the medicine involved as well as have access to experts that can help them establish causation and establish if there was a medical mistake.

This concept is even more difficult when there are a number of medical professionals who could potentially be at fault — in those cases, a jury can be confused as to how to assess the issue of causation.

The Court determined that New Mexico law generally requires an expert witness as to medical causation, but such testimony is not necessary when exceptional circumstances that are within common experience or knowledge of the average person are present.

Consequently, future claimants would be expected «to be able to understand and apply the law of negligence, liability, causation and quantum, instruct and pay for a medical expert, quantify their claim, pay a court fee, obtain witness evidence from independent witnesses, negotiate with insurers and ultimately appear in court as their own advocate against a legally experienced opponent».

[47] First, Sopinka J. held that it is not necessary that the plaintiff adduce expert scientific or medical evidence definitively supporting the plaintiff's theory of causation, as «[c] ausation need not be determined by scientific precision» (p. 328; see also pp. 330 - 31).

Vaccine injury practice is a fascinating and challenging area of federal litigation involving complex medical causation issues, scientific research (typically in areas such as immunology, neurology, and genetics), medical experts, and, often - times, detailed damages calculations.