Intervening Cause

• Intervening Cause

A separate act or omission that breaks the direct connection between the defendant's actions and an injury or loss to another per...

• West's Encyclopedia of American Law
• Fri–Jam

• Makowski v. Kohler, (Ohio 2011)

intervening cause, negligence, political subdivision immunity, jurisdiction

• Ohio Supreme Court

• State v. Dukes, (Ohio 2011)

CRIMINAL - Murder; R.C. 2903.02(B) and 2929.02; Aggravated Burglary; R.C. 2911.11(A)(1) and (B); Aggravated Robbery; R.C. 2911.01(A)(3); intent; sufficiency of the evidence; intervening causes; independent, intervening cause of death; gross medical negligence; self-inflicted harm; causation; removal of life support/ventilator; expert assistance; particular need; informed consent; competency; jury instructions.

• Ohio Supreme Court

• OH: death from long term Coumadin use: was pharmacy's error an intervening cause?

CASE FACTS: Dr. Steven Dosick, a vascular surgeon, performed surgery on Jerry Austermiller. Following a brief post-surgical hospitalization, the surge...

• Medical Law's Regan Report
• Vol. 35 Nbr. 1, January 2002

• Patient's Suicide Doesn't Preclude Paxil Lawsuit, Rules 10th Circuit

A Paxil user's suicide did not constitute an intervening cause that would preclude the government's liability for the negligence of its medical care providers, the 10th Circuit has ruled in reversing a summary judgment. The plaintiff's husband committed suicide while receiving care at a medical facility operated by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.

• Lawyers USA
• August 04, 2010

• Crosby v. Radenko, (Ohio 2011)

Trial court erred when, consistent with our holding in Didier v. Johns (1996), 114 Ohio App.3d 746, the court applied the doctrine of intervening/superseding cause to grant Defendant’s motion for summary judgment on Plaintiff’s claims for personal injuries and property loss arising from a collision of motor vehicles, on findings that the Plaintiff’s negligence per se in violating the assured clear distance statute, and the lack of any intervening negligence on the part of other drivers involved in the episode, prevents a finding that the Defendant’s prior alleged negligence was also a proximate cause of Plaintiff’s injuries and losses, when reasonable minds could conclude that the concurrent negligences of Plaintiff and Defendant were each a proximate cause, requiring a jury determinati...

• Ohio Supreme Court

• State v. Caldwell, (Ohio 2006)

Murder – intervening cause – proximate cause – manifest weight – sufficiency - credibility.

• Ohio Supreme Court

• Negligence

.... In order to establish negligence as a CAUSE OF ACTION under the law of TORTS , a plaintif... from the defendant's act and no intervening, external force acts to cause the injury. Interven...

• West's Encyclopedia of American Law
• Mc–Pl

• State v. Smith, (Ohio 2007)

Involuntary manslaughter - intervening cause; manifest weight - credibility of witness; restitution.

• Ohio Supreme Court

• Abbuhl v. Orange Village, (Ohio 2003)

Negligence per se-Proximate Cause-Intervening Cause-Discovery-Privileged Matter

• Ohio Supreme Court