Opinion ID: 2607677
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Heading: There must be a reasonable causal connection between use of the vehicle and the injury.

Text: Other jurisdictions have addressed the question of causation for fact patterns similar to the one before us. Generally, courts have firmly rejected any notion of proximate causation and have required instead only that there be some causation between the injury and the use of the vehicle. Quarles v. State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co., 533 So.2d 809 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1988) (finding a significant causal connection without stating a general standard); Union Mut. Fire Ins. Co. v. Commercial Union Ins. Co., 521 A.2d 308 (Me. 1987) (reasonable causal connection between use of vehicle and injury); State Capital Ins. Co. v. Nationwide Mut. Ins. Co., 318 N.C. 534, 350 S.E.2d 66 (1986) (test is not proximate cause, but causal connection); Kohl v. Union Ins. Co., 731 P.2d 134 (Colo. 1986) (en banc) (injury must be causally related to a conceivable use of the vehicle). We agree with these courts that the proper inquiry in hunting accidents involving automobiles is whether the use made of the vehicle at the time of the accident logically flows from and is consistent with the foreseeable uses of that vehicle.