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.
(1) That there is a direct causal connection between the conditions under which work is performed and the occupational disease; (2) That it can be seen to have followed as a natural incident of the work as a result of the exposure occasioned by the nature of the employment; (3) That it can be fairly traced to the employment as the proximate cause;