How does the substantial factor test differ from the but-for test?

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Concurrent causes are those events that combine (concur) to cause the plaintiff's harm, although either one of them alone could cause the harm without any contribution from the other. Under the substantial-factor test, an alternative to the but-for test, the question is whether the defendant was a substantial factor in producing the plaintiff's injury. If the concurrent causes produce a single, indivisible harm in which the damage from one event cannot be separated from that caused by the other, the courts have generally found both events to be a substantial factor in producing the plaintiff's injuries.

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