Pascoe v. PA American Water Co.

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that because statutory interpretation presents a question of law, “we ‘may make an independent determination of [the] legal question’” (alteration in original
• “[T]he plaintiff must establish causation beyond mere possibility or speculation.” (quoting Nelson v. Hammon, 802 P.2d 452, 457 (Colo. 1990))
• “Where some events unrelated to the defendant’s conduct may also have contributed to bringing about the claimed injury, the plaintiff must show that the defendant’s alleged negligence was a substantial factor in producing the injury.”
• expert medical testimony sufficient evidence to prove cause of death

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).