Showing posts with label Intervening/superseding cause. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Intervening/superseding cause. Show all posts
Thursday, July 30, 2026

Washington Supreme Court finds state university can be held liable for hazing death at fraternity

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 A split Washington Supreme Court on Thursday found that Washington State University owed a duty to protect a freshman who died from alcohol...
Sunday, May 17, 2026

More cases against OpenAI over injuries arguably caused by ChatGPT use; and a comment on why recognizing such claims would be bad policy

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 The number of claims against OpenAI related to injuries alleged to have been caused by the use of ChatGPT continues to rise.  For two stori...
Thursday, March 12, 2026

Washington Court allows claim against Amazon based on plaintiffs' decedent's suicide -- UPDATED

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February 22, 2026  Long time readers of this blog may remember that I have posted a number of times about cases dealing with whether Amazon ...
Monday, January 19, 2026

Yet another lawsuit filed against ChatGPT for its alleged role in a user's suicide

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 Since August of last year I have seen several cases filed in different jurisdictions against AI platforms alleging in one way or another th...
Friday, October 24, 2025

Nevada Supreme Court abandons "suicide rule" and adopts proximate cause analysis for all suicide cases

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 Long time readers of this blog may remember I have often posted about cases involving claims for wrongful death arising out of someone’s su...
Sunday, August 31, 2025

Parents sue ChatGPT Company alleging the AI program helped their son commit suicide

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 The parents of a 16-year-old who died by suicide sued OpenAI last week, claiming that ChatGPT encouraged their son to take his life and eve...
Sunday, January 21, 2024

Comment on the recent case on whether a suicide is an unforeseeable intervening event

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 A few days ago I reported ( here ) that the Illinois Appellate Court recently decided a case on whether a decedent’s conduct in committing ...
Sunday, January 14, 2024

IL Appellate Court Holds that Mental Health Providers Can Be Liable for the Suicide of Outpatient Mental Health Clients

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 The TortsProf Blog recently reported that the Illinois Appellate Court decided a case holding that a mental health professional can be lia...
Saturday, November 11, 2023

Teacher can sue school district system for injuries suffered when a 6 year old, first grade, student shot her

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In an important, and somewhat surprising, decision, a state judge has ruled that a teacher who was shot by a 6-year-old student in Virginia ...
Sunday, December 19, 2021

Family members of student victim in the Michigan school shooting sue school district

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The family of Riley Franz, a student who was shot in the neck at Oxford High School last week, is suing the school district and school offic...
Monday, June 21, 2021

Snapchat Ends 'Speed Filter' That Critics Say Encouraged Reckless Driving

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 Last month I reported that the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals had issued an opinion holding that the parents of a teenager killed in a t...
Sunday, June 13, 2021

Trial related to destroyed frozen embryos raises interesting questions -- UPDATED again

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This story is updated below, at the end of the original post I just read a story on Courthouse News on a trial in which the plaintiffs are ...
Monday, May 24, 2021

Parents of teen who committed suicide sue Snapchat and other "apps" developers

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A few days ago I posted a news story about a decision against Snapchat.  Yesterday, I posted a story about a new decision involving a suicid...
Sunday, May 23, 2021

Court in Alabama holds suicide is not a superseding cause

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In many other jurisdictions, a decedent's conduct in committing suicide is considered a superseding cause, presumably based on the notio...
Monday, May 17, 2021

Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit recognizes cause of action against Snapchat

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A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals recently decided that the parents of a teenager killed in a traffic accident ca...
Thursday, December 31, 2020

Federal court rules that parents of a third grader who committed suicide have a cause of action against school board and school principal

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 In a case that has a number of interesting implications the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit has affirmed the denial of a motion to d...
Wednesday, February 26, 2020

Germany's highest court declares law banning assisted suicide is unconstitutional

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Germany’s highest court on Wednesday ruled that a 2015 law banning professional assisted suicide was unconstitutional, as it robbed terminal...
Sunday, January 26, 2020

Alabama Supreme Court to decide whether suicide is a superseding cause

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Long time readers of this blog know that I have posted many stories on issues related to claims of injuries related to suicide; and one of t...
Monday, December 23, 2019

Arizona Appeals Court suggests it is time to starting thinking of suicide as any other intervening cause

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As in many other jurisdictions, a decedent's conduct in committing suicide is considered a superseding cause, presumably based on the no...