Allstate Insurance Company v. Tonja Blount Nathan Smith Andrew J. Grimes Barbara Grimes Mitchell Y. Choi

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• finding that defendant’s guilty plea and criminal conviction conclusively established a criminal act
• Missouri courts determine whether there are concurrent proximate causes of an injury by determining whether each cause could have independently brought about the injury
• \Decisions of intermediate state appellate courts are persuasive authority that we follow when they are the best evidence of what state law is.\
• concurrent proximate cause doctrine would not apply unless the defendant’s negligent failure to supervise, control, protect, and provide assistance to the victim could have independently caused the victim’s death

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).