Exam 13: Negligence: Element III: Proximate Cause

Explain why it is not true that you will be liable for every injury of which you are the actual cause.

The two components of proximate cause are actual cause and legal cause.

The defendant will not be liable for the aggravation of the original injury caused by the defendant when the plaintiff could have prevented the aggravation.

What is the legal cause component of proximate cause?

The extent of the injury must be foreseeable for the defendant to be the proximate cause of that injury.

Intervening forces are always superseding causes.

What are some of the commonsense considerations for determining whether something is the actual cause of an injury?

Distinguish between general causation and specific causation in toxic tort cases.

A sudden violent storm that contributes to the plaintiff's injury is an intervening ________.