The distinction between an anxiety disorder and just having normal anxiety is whether your emotions are causing a lot of suffering and dysfunction, says Sally Winston, PsyD, co-director of the Anxiety and Stress Disorder Institute of Maryland in Towson.
Definition - What does Proximate Cause mean? Proximate cause refers to a direct cause of loss, without which the loss would not occur; therefore, it is a highly relevant principle in the insurance industry. For an act or event to be considered a proximate cause, it does not necessarily have to directly precede a loss or begin a chain of occurrences leading to the same.
There may be more than one proximate cause of an event, but if an act or. omission of any person not a party to the suit was the âsole proximate. causeâ of an occurrence, then no act or omission of any other person could. have been a proximate cause. Conduct need not be negligence to be sole proximate cause.