died on Tuesday, the next day, does not prevent the defendant’s conduct from being a cause of his death on Monday, but would obviously be quite relevant to the question of damages. In essence, the “take him as you find him” rule simply means that the extent of the victim’s actual injury from the accident need not have been reasonably foreseeable. Id. at 1361 (footnote omitted). B. The lost-chance theory in Iowa. We first recognized a claim for lost chance of survival in the case of DeBurkarte v. Louvar, 393 N.W.2d 131 (Iowa 1986). Even before we decided DeBurkarte, a federal court in a diversity case had made an “informed prophecy,” Moores v. Greenberg, 834 F.2d 1105, 1112 (1st Cir.1987), that this was the state of the Iowa law. See O'Brien v. Stover, 443 F.2d 1013, 1018 (8th Cir.1971) (<HOLDING>). The DeBurkarte case involved a lost chance of
holding that loss of profits from contingent sales contracts were not compensable in inverse condemnation where landowner asserted that zoning action had resulted in loss of a chance to sell the property recognizing loss of consortium claims holding that loss of an arm includes loss of the hand recognizing loss of chance in negligentdiagnosis case holding that proof of loss is not evidence of extent of loss and insured is not precluded from showing his damages were greater than shown in proof of loss