Redden v. SCI Colorado Funeral Services, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that it is proper to deny a non-party-at-fault designation of a treating chiropractor in a car accident case when the defendant failed to make out a prima facie case that the chiropractor breached a legal duty to the plaintiff
• applying abuse of discretion standard and affirming trial court’s dismissal of non-party at fault designation
• finding no abuse of discretion where the district court refused to accept nonparty at fault designations “nearly six months after the statutory deadline, and twenty-one days after the court-ordered deadline”
• “An intervening cause only relieves the defendant of liability if it was not reasonably foreseeable.”
• when a court does not discern a defendant has established legal culpability against an alleged nonparty, the designation is properly disallowed
• court would have had discretion to examine the experts’ credentials for appropriate knowledge of the conduct at issue

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).