Lucinda's Disease Process

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Your football example is appreciated. The dynamics that can be applied to Lucinda’s situation are engaging and vast. For example, imagine during discovery the defense discovered that Lucinda had a disease process that effected balance and coordination. Now, imagine Lucinda’s broken arm was not the result of a dare but rather learning to use crutches. To the uninitiated it may be easy to assume that Marilyn is not liable for the injury because the disease would convert the fall to a superseding cause. However, one must consider the egg shell skull rule which states the defendant must “take his plaintiff as he finds him.” What if attributable to her disease process she fell to her death while on