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- W3125202668 abstract "For decades the volume of asbestos claims has been a unique and mesmerizing phenomenon. This historic wave of civil claims would never have been possible had U.S. common law courts not adopted two radical dispensations from orthodox rules for the proof of causation, tantamount to causal fictions, that enabled asbestos plaintiffs to establish against each defendant factual causation to the plaintiffs’ entire physical condition for which the defendant would, therefore, be jointly and severally liable. Yet these proof-of-causation doctrines have gone virtually unremarked by courts and the academy. We should not, therefore, be too surprised that, even though the Third Restatement (Torts): Products Liability (“Products Liability Restatement”) elsewhere acknowledged a doctrinal approach that courts had developed especially for the asbestos context, it was silent on the special causal proof rules on which asbestos cases proceed. Indeed, the Products Liability Restatement asserts that “[w]hether a product defect caused harm to persons or property is determined by the prevailing rules and principles governing causation in tort:” the Reporters had been led to believe that “traditional notions of causation retain their vitality in products liability.” What are these radical proof-of-causation doctrines? Why were they adopted? Why have they yet to face rigorous academic analysis? Why was the Products Liability Restatement silent about them? What might we learn from this apparently profound failure of the restatement process? This Article is divided into six Parts. Part I describes how, in asbestosis cases, U.S. courts absolve plaintiffs from the requirement of proving the portion of the total injury for which each culpable exposer was responsible, and thereby, in effect, proceed on the fiction that asbestosis is an indivisible injury attracting joint and several liability. Part II investigates the origin of this indivisibility-of-injury doctrine in" @default.
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- W3125202668 title "The Two Explosive Proof-of-Causation Doctrines Central to Asbestos Claims" @default.
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