Intervening Cause

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1. Does absence of the original wrongdoer’s control over a later event alone prove a superseding cause?
2. A shop negligently causes an electrical fire. A visitor reasonably moves away from the flames and suffers proved injury…
3. A negligently damaged device is fully repaired and verified safe. Much later, an unrelated person independently sabotag…
4. A contractor negligently cuts a sprinkler line; an ordinary foreseeable fire then spreads because the system cannot fun…
5. An earlier negligent act is followed by a new occurrence. The court finds the later event independently adequate, unrel…
6. Assess a fire-response injury without treating every voluntary act as superseding.
7. Contrast a continuing disabled safety system with an earlier defect fully repaired before independent sabotage.
8. Why is lack of control over another actor not alone decisive under Abrogar?