A claimant can establish duty, breach and factual causation and still recover nothing if the damage falls outside the law's limits on liability. This chapter opens with the doctrine of remoteness and the reasonable foreseeability test, then shows how that test is applied — which elements of the damage must be foreseeable, and which need not be. It moves on to the categories of recoverable loss, including the general bar on pure economic loss and its main exception, before examining when an intervening act breaks the chain of causation. It closes with the eggshell and crumbling skull principles, which shape liability for vulnerable claimants, and the duty to mitigate, which trims losses the claimant could reasonably have avoided.
