Difference Between Factual, Proximal Causation Leads to Overturned $7.5M Med-Mal Verdict

"[The plaintiff's] theory of causation was, if he'd have been at the hospital, he wouldn't have had the chance to be hit by a ...
JSTOR Daily

The Conserved Quantity Theory of Causation and Chance Raising

Philosophy of Science, Vol. 66, Supplement. Proceedings of the 1998 Biennial Meetings of the Philosophy of Science Association. Part I: Contributed Papers (Sep., 1999), pp. S486-S501 (16 pages) In ...
Law

Courts Shoot Down Asbestos Causation Theory

In his Products Liability column, Michael Hoenig of Herzfeld & Rubin discusses the "any exposure" theory of causation, which contends that asbestos disease is a cumulative dose-response process, and ...
The Atlantic

The Causation of Crime

IT was more than twenty-five years ago that my attention was first attracted to the causation of crime. I was a young magistrate then, trying my first, cases, very nervous, very conscientiously ...