Requiring proximate cause can place some limits on liability. Real-Life Examples and Legal Implications For example, when the weather is inclement, it is highly foreseeable that driving at normal ...

A defendant’s action is a proximate cause of the injury if the act–or failure to act–was most directly responsible for the injury. For example, if a doctor doesn’t monitor a baby’s heart ...

This would apply, for example, where the plaintiff delivered ... We can view such claims as variants of a sole proximate cause defense, in which event we would likely apply whichever of the ...

For example, in Heritage Partners v ... the First Department observed that plaintiffs' proximate cause allegations were "couched in terms of gross speculations on future events," including ...

One of the six pillars of insurance is the Principle of Proximate Cause, which means “the active, efficient, cause that sets in motion a train of events which brings about a result….” ...

“Tough luck.” The proximate cause concept can work against you, as in the case of this man’s Range Rover, but it can also work in your favor. Three examples: Many people do not carry fire coverage on ...

Oral argument: four justices advocate relief, while four others see no proximate cause? Yesterday’s argument addressed both of the 9th Circuit’s grounds, but focused almost entirely on the second one, ...