Efficient Proximate Cause Rule Clarified: Coverage Hinges on the Dominant Peril

Was the loss caused by a covered peril—wind— requiring the insurer to pay for a new roof? Or, was the loss caused by excluded ...
Law

Proximate Cause: Plaintiff's Employer and Its Post-'Burlington' Role in the Duty To Defend Analysis

In this article, Laura B. Dowgin and Thomas J. Maroney discuss the 'Burlington Insurance v. NYC Transit Authority' case and how case law regarding the duty to defend has been affected since the ...
Reason

Second Amendment Roundup: Supreme Court Should Resolve Proximate Cause in S&W v. Mexico

As I posted here, the March 4 oral argument in Smith & Wesson Brands v. Estados Unidos Mexicanos appeared to go well for S&W and not well for Mexico. Mexico's lawsuit seeks to hold America's federally ...
CNBC

Cramer: The 'proximate cause' of Super Micro's 23% drop Friday? Go back to March 8

At law school, we learned about "proximate cause," one of the few valuable concepts you can take from three years of drudgery. It's about who and what caused the injury and who pays for it. The ...