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Mass Tort & MDL

Specific Causation

Whether the product actually caused this claimant's injury.

An individual question turning on exposure dose and duration, timing, alternative causes, and differential diagnosis. Its irreducibly individual character is the principal reason mass torts fail predominance and proceed by MDL consolidation rather than class certification.

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