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.
At the charge conference, TEC requested that its defensive theories be presented to the jury in two inferential rebuttal instructions, one on unavoidable accident and the other on sole proximate cause. On sole proximate cause, TEC asked that the definition of proximate cause include the following sentence: 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 persons could have been a proximate cause. See Comm. on Pattern Jury Charges, State Bar of Tex., Texas Pattern Jury Charges-General Negligence & Intentional Personal Torts PJC 3.2 ...