What is the test for establishing a causation element in a motor vehicle accident case?
"New York", United States of America
The following excerpt is from Van Overloop v. Robles, 2015 NY Slip Op 30208 (U) (N.Y. Sup. Ct. 2015):
It is true that the causation element will not be found where the connection between violation and a claimed injury is too speculative to support (see Cotter v. Pal & Lee Inc., 86 A.D.3d 463 [1st Dept. 2011]). Still, the criterion is simply whether the connection between the statutory violation and the resultant injury is sufficiently "practical or reasonable" so as to sustain
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