Natural and Probable Consequences

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1. Which sequence is central to the judicial definition of proximate cause?
2. Must a proximate cause always be the event closest in time to the injury?
3. Why is proving that an injury happened after the defendant acted insufficient by itself?
4. A negligent worker leaves a wheeled cart unsecured on a slope. It rolls downhill and strikes a pedestrian in the ordina…
5. A person’s old purchase of a chair merely explains why the person was at a shop years later. At that later visit, a who…
6. A negligently obstructed exit remains blocked during a foreseeable emergency. Occupants respond to an alarm in an ordin…
7. A claimant proves that a remote act supplied only the setting for an injury. The court finds that a distinct, unrelated…
8. Explain the natural-and-continuous-sequence concept of proximate cause and the significance of an efficient intervening…
9. A negligent act starts a foreseeable sequence that naturally produces injury, but a later physical event delivers the f…
10. Distinguish a remote circumstance that merely furnishes the occasion from negligence producing injury as its natural an…
11. Is proof that one accident caused a burn necessarily proof that it proximately caused a later death during unrelated or…
12. Does financial sponsorship alone necessarily make a sponsor the proximate cause of every injury at an event?