Grantham v. Amin

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• holding that testimony that the defendant’s negligence was a “significant contributing cause” of death was insufficient to establish causation
• affirming summary judgment in favor of the defendant doctor when the plaintiff’s expert testified that the doctor’s alleged negligence “could have been a significant contributing cause” to the patient’s death
• expert’s statement that negligence “could have been a significant contributing cause” of death was not sufficient
• even if plaintiff had proven negligence, in light of absence of evidence of use of prescribed medication, it cannot be said that prescribing the drug proximately caused death
• harm sustained must be the proximate result of the negligence at issue
• absence of evidence as to proximate cause entitled defendant to summary judgment

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).