Bramlette Ex Rel. Estate of Bramlette v. Charter-Medical-Columbia

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• explaining that a plaintiff “proves legal cause by establishing the injury in question occurred as a natural and probable consequence of the defendant’s negligence”
• rejecting hospital's claim that plaintiff had failed to establish \but for\ causation where patient on recreational outing jumped from bridge
• rejecting hospital’s claim that plaintiff had failed to establish “but for” causation where patient on recreational outing jumped from bridge
• affirming the trial court’s denial of defendant’s directed verdict motion on basis of proximate cause when patient committed suicide while on a recreational outing with other patients and occupational therapist employed by hospital
• primary wrongdoer’s action is legal cause of injury if either intervening act or injury itself was foreseeable as natural and probable consequence of that action
• error to exclude witness’s testimony where witness called to rebut unanticipated trial testimony, which was not revealed to other side despite specific inquiries during discovery

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