What is the test for determining whether substantial evidence supports the factual findings of a medical malpractice case?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Los Angeles Cnty. Dep't of Children & Family Servs. v. Leticia M. (In re H.M.), B235950 (Cal. App. 2012):
In determining whether substantial evidence supports the factual findings, "all intendments are in favor of the judgment and [we] must accept as true the evidence which tends to establish the correctness of the findings as made, taking into account as well all inferences which might reasonably have been drawn by the trial court." (Crogan v. Metz (1956) 47 Cal.2d 398, 403-404.) "'"[T]he [appellate] court must review the whole record
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