The legal link between someone’s conduct and your injury. To win a personal injury case, you typically must show that the defendant’s actions caused or significantly contributed to your harm.
In a personal injury case:
There are usually two questions:
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Cause in fact: Would your injury have happened “but for” the defendant’s conduct?
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Proximate cause: Was your injury a reasonably foreseeable result of that conduct?
What to know:
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Pre-existing conditions can still qualify if the accident made them worse.
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Medical records and expert testimony often play a big role in proving causation.