Where a plaintiff's case on causation requires multiple contingencies to be overcome, the question is not whether each contingency would more likely than not have been overcome individually, but whether taken collectively it is more likely than not they all would have been overcome. The questions of whether parents of a disabled child are entitled to general damages and whether damages extend beyond the child's 18th birthday remain open in the ACT.
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