Causation

Proximate cause means “legal cause,” or one that the law recognizes as the primary cause of the injury. In other words, the plaintiff will have to show that the injuries were the natural and direct consequence of the proximate cause, without which the injuries would not have occurred.

For example, if a texting driver strikes a motorcyclist, the driver’s actions caused the accident. Proximate cause, however, has to be determined by law as the primary cause of injury. So, without the proximate cause the injury would not exist.

“Willful misconduct” is considered an act of wanton or willful disregard of the employer’s interests, the deliberate violation of rules, the disregard of standards of behavior that an employer can rightfully expect from an employee, or negligence that manifests culpability, wrongful intent, evil design, or intentional …

The noun negligence comes from a Latin word that means “carelessness.” Negligence can come in many forms: negligence of one’s children can lead to foster care, negligence while driving can cause fatal accidents, negligence of work can lead to the loss of a job, and negligence of nutrition can cause health problems.

As nouns the difference between ignorance and negligence is that ignorance is the condition of being uninformed or uneducated lack of knowledge or information while negligence is the state of being negligent.

Carelessness is a failure to use the degree of attentiveness, caution and prudence that a reasonable person in the circumstances would exercise. When the failure to use reasonable care leads to harm, the actor may be lieble in negligence to the harmed person for damages. …