Article: The felony murder rule in Illinois: the injustice of the proximate cause theory explored via research in cognitive psychology.

Article: Proximate Cause and Civil RICO Standing: The ...
Brigham Young University Law Review;  January 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... three-factor approach to decide proximate cause, and therefore standing, under ... The Court, however, read a proximate cause element into the civil RICO statute and decided the case on proximate cause grounds without addressing the ...

Article: Two perils make proximate cause hard to determine. ...
National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management;  February 27, 1995 ;     700+ words ... ... study group. It has to do with "proximate cause" when two perils are involved, one ... which peril can be said to be the proximate cause of loss? The detailsof the problem ... will legal theories relating to proximate cause allow coverage for the triggering ...

Article: Proximate Cause
West's Encyclopedia of American Law;      392 words ...PROXIMATE CAUSE An act from which an injury results ... injury would not have occurred. Proximate cause is the primary cause of an injury ... of events leading to an injury. Proximate cause produces particular, foreseeable ...

Article: 'Proximate cause' issue: hospital skirts deplorable ...
Hospital Law's Regan Report;  May 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... 2004 WL1045911 P.2d--WA ISSUE: Proximate cause is a sine qua non in proving a hospital ... the deplorable hospital care was the proximate cause of the patient's complications ... that the threshold for establishing proximate cause in a loss of chance case is, according ...

Article: Restating duty, breach, and proximate cause in ...
Vanderbilt Law Review;  April 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... and 4) Defendant's breach was a proximate cause of that injury, which resulted in ... experience in applying the standard. The proximate cause determination seems equally unbounded ... cause-in-fact question from the proximate cause question and give little guidance ...

Article: Proximate Cause: The Final Defense in Legal ...
The University of Memphis Law Review;  April 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... take the appeal until I thought of proximate cause. What was the attorney retained to ... I have proclaimed the virtues of proximate cause-the last line of defense in an attorney ... every element of malpractice except proximate cause, the defendantattorney may be able ...

Article: Victory for defendants in asbestos case: the Illinois Supreme ...
Illinois Bar Journal;  June 1, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... the negligence of others as the sole proximate cause of plaintiffs' injuries. The court ... evidence to establish that the sole proximate cause of a plaintiff's injuries was a ... to present evidence that the sole proximate cause of Clarence's death was his exposure ...