Zuern v. Ford Motor Co.

How courts have described this case

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• noting that because UCATA “expressly defines ‘fault’ to include ‘strict liability,’ all of the different types of fault identified in that section, if contributing to the same injury, must be compared . . . in assessing percentages of fault”
• affirming exclusion of an expert opinion on an alternate theory disclosed more than three months after the disclosure deadline
• explaining causation “is a necessary condition precedent to consideration of a person’s fault—i.e., the fault must have ‘proximately caus[ed] or contribut[ed]’ to the claimant’s injuries to be considered”
• discussing the statutory mandate 19 under Section 12-2506(B) that “the trier of fact shall consider the fault of ‘all persons who 20 contributed to the alleged injury’ in assessing percentages of fault.”
• “Although causation (or physical contribution to the injury

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