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Toxic Substance Contamination: The Risk-Benefit Approach To Causation Analysis, Bradford W. Kuster
Toxic Substance Contamination: The Risk-Benefit Approach To Causation Analysis, Bradford W. Kuster
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
This article argues that the dilemma described above requires change and proposes a new standard for causation in this type of toxic contamination case. Part I examines the difficulties posed by conventional common law relief mechanisms, and the inadequacies of existing statutory relief mechanisms. Part II scrutinizes a more lenient burden of proof standard, the risk-benefit approach, which some courts have applied when faced with situations involving scientific uncertainties. The risk-benefit approach will be applied to causation analysis in the context of damage recoveries, using the. Hemlock, Michigan, situation as a case study. Part III discusses present congressional proposals, and …