Anderson v. Picciotti

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “In a few exceptional cases [ ] the burden of proof on some issues may shift to the defendant.”
• doctor who failed to perform examination that would have led to earlier discovery of cancer liable when jury concluded that the increased risk to which doctor exposed patient was a substantial factor in bringing about harm
• medical malpractice case holding that where plaintiff does not urge that defendant’s negligence increased her risk of harm from a pre-existing disease, defendant has “ ‘burden to segregate recoverable damages from those solely incident to the preexisting disease.’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).