Proximate cause is an essential element to every tort. Someone who is the actual cause of an injury might escape liability if they are not the proximate cause of the injury.

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Today I want to discuss proximate cause, which is sometimes called legal cause. In every tort, a plaintiff must prove that the defendant was not only the actual cause of the injury, but also the proximate cause.

Proximate cause requires the plaintiff’s harm to be a reasonably foreseeable consequence of the defendant’s wrongful act.