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.
But figuring out the proximate cause of a car accident injury can become necessary in some instances, and it can be a difficult proposition. In multi-vehicle accidents, the proximate cause of your injuries can be removed from the actual cause in fact of the accident that led to your injury. Car accidents can involve complex chains of events -- this pedestrian steps into the intersection, as this bicyclist runs a stop sign, as this driver is speeding, and as this other driver can't see properly through the sun's glare on a dirty windshield.