What is the test for foreseeability in a claim for negligence?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Bryant v. Glastetter, 32 Cal.App.4th 770, 38 Cal.Rptr.2d 291 (Cal. App. 1995):
2 The decision in Schrimscher v. Bryson, supra, highlights the fact that the foreseeability of the harm and the closeness of the connection between the negligence and the harm are two sides of the same coin: "The general test of whether an independent intervening act, which operates to produce an injury, breaks the chain of causation is the foreseeability of that act. [Citation.]" (58 Cal.App.3d at p. 664, 130 Cal.Rptr. 125.)
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