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1734 A jury instruction, pursuant to a Solano County Complex Asbestos Litigation General Order, shifting the burden of proving lack of causation to defendant is incorrect; plaintiff has the burden of proving that exposure to the defendant's asbestos products was, in reasonable medical probability, a substantial factor in causing or contributing to his/her risk of developing cancer, but need not prove with medical exactitude that fibers from a particular defendant's asbestos-containing products were those, or among those, that actually began the cellular process of malignancy.CitationRUTHERFORD v OWENS-ILLINOIS (Asbestos Burden) 16 C4 953 [See: Buttram v Owens-Corning, 16 C4 520, T/AT 9/97; Lineaweaver v Plant 31 CA4 1409, T/AT 3/95]
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