824 So. 2d 627 - Sample v. Haga’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 735 So. 2d 161 - Donald v. Amoco Production Co. · 555 So. 2d 725 - Parker v. Game and Fish Com'n · 790 So. 2d 903 - Dailey v. Methodist Medical Center · Delahoussaye v. Mary Mahoney's Inc. · Sweatt v. Murphy
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“cause which in natural and continuous sequence unbroken by any efficient intervening cause produces the injury and without which the result would not have occurred.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the cause-in-fact of the deaths of Sample and Williams was the voluntary act of each in re-entering the house in an attempt to find the other.” Id. at 632 . We find unpersuasive E&Y’s comparison between the Sample case and the facts before us. Travelers' continued reasonable reliance on the negligently audited financial statements distinguishes Sample, where the lack of smoke detectors played no causal role in Sample's and Williams' decision to re-enter the house. While the 1999 financial statements’ depiction of FGH’s financial status may have led Travelers to a”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“breach of a duty must be the proximate cause of the injury suffered.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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