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Discover LudwigThe phrase "proximately caused by" is correct and usable in written English
It is typically used in legal or formal contexts to indicate a direct cause-and-effect relationship. Example: "The damages were proximately caused by the defendant's negligence during the incident."
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Asserting that his reduced revenues were proximately caused by the accident, Plaintiff seeks recovery of $9,000 in lost income.
The bill would allow state courts to decide lawsuits "for damages from personal injury or for wrongful death proximately caused by a denial of a claim for benefits".
We render judgment for him in the sum of $87,500.00, the amount found by the jury as his damages proximately caused by the manager's intentional tort.
The special class of plaintiffs involved in those cases were particularly foreseeable to the tortfeasor, and the economic losses were proximately caused by the tortfeasor's negligence.
The jury concluded that Gammon had suffered "severe emotional distress" but that the distress was not proximately caused by intentional or reckless conduct of either defendant.
A defendant failing to adhere to this duty of care may be found liable for such economic damages proximately caused by its breach of duty.
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"The Benghazi attack was directly and proximately caused, at a minimum by defendant Clinton's 'extreme carelessness' in handling confidential and classified information," the lawsuit asserts.
The student brought suit against the school district, claiming that the school authorities' negligent supervision proximately caused his injuries.
Defendants argued in their motion for summary judgment that neither NHPL nor HL & P proximately caused appellant's accident or injury.
Defendants next assert that, as a matter of law, a new and independent, intervening cause proximately caused Henry's accident and injury, and therefore defendants are not liable.
"When it is established by a defendant's judicial admission, or the State proves beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant intentionally inflicted a wound upon the deceased with a deadly weapon which proximately caused death, the law raises two presumptions against the defendant: (1) the killing was unlawful, and (2) it was done with malice.
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