Metro Allied Insurance Agency, Inc. v. Lin

How courts have described this case

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• holding that element of cause in fact requires that defendant’s act be substantial factor in bringing about injury, without which harm would not have occurred
• defining causation under the DTPA as a “substantial factor in bringing about the injury, without which the injury would not have occurred”
• “Lin is required to present legally sufficient evidence that the coverage he sought is obtainable to surmount the causation hurdle.”
• “That [causation] standard requires proof that the act was a substantial factor in bringing about the injury, without which the injury would not have occurred.”
• “An insurance agent’s independent representations may affect his responsibilities to his client, but they cannot add to or alter the coverages of any insurance contract or provision.”
• cause-in-fact must be proved to recover for alleged DTPA violations

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).