Welcome to The Briefing - a legal podcast by Smith Freed Eberhard. We will provide insight and analysis on new Oregon and Washington case law, litigation innovation and technology, the insurance marketplace, and firm news.

In this week's episode Partner Josh Hayward publishes Smith Freed Eberhard's latest Legal Alert, "When Underlying Conditions Don’t Automatically Prove Causation". The Oregon Court of Appeals examined an appeal by Roberta and Kevin Haas (“Plaintiffs”) who claimed that the trial court erred when it refused to give the substantial-factor jury instruction in addition to the but-for instruction.