How has causation been determined in a medical malpractice case?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Hosak v. Hirst, 2003 BCCA 42 (CanLII):
In this case, the facts relevant to the issue of causation had to be determined with reference to the legal principles that are applied when a tortious act materially contributes to a non-tortious condition. Those principles were summarized in Athey v. Leonati, 1996 CanLII 183 (SCC), [1996] 3 S.C.R. 458, commencing at p. 466, and are set out below:
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