How have courts dealt with difficult questions about causation and apportionment of damages in multiple accidents?

Ontario, Canada


The following excerpt is from Sale v. O’Grady’s Restaurant, 2011 ONSC 2437 (CanLII):

There are many cases of multiple accidents in which difficult questions of causation and apportionment of damages have been addressed by trial judges. Moore J. of this court dealt with a particularly difficult case in Broadbent v. Greater Toronto Transit Authority (2008), 54 C.C.L.T. (3d) 19, [2008] O.J. No. 181, a case in which he discussed a number of the authorities, including Blackwater v. Plint.

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