Cause vs. Condition

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1. Does making the injury physically possible invariably establish proximate causation?
2. A negligently disabled warning alarm fails when the very hazard it should detect occurs. Its failure is proved to cause…
3. A store’s wall supplies shade where a visitor stands. A wholly unrelated event causes injury; no wall defect or relevan…
4. A safety cover is negligently omitted from a machine. A user’s expected hand movement leads to contact with exposed par…
5. A defective alarm exists, but the claimant had complete timely warning from another source and was injured through an u…
6. Explain how a silent failed warning device may be an operative cause rather than a harmless condition.
7. Distinguish a shaded location from a negligently uncovered machine as causal conditions.
8. Why does a proved defect not necessarily establish liability for every injury at the site?