State Hazard Mitigation Interagency Committee. Massachusetts has had an active State Hazard Mitigation Interagency Committee (SHMIC) since its. creation in 1991, following two Presidential Disaster Declarations, Hurricane Bob in August and the. Halloween Storm in October of that year. This committee, which consists of state, federal, and.
Conclusion of Law. The rule by which the rights of parties in a lawsuit are determined by a judge's application of relevant statutes or legal principles to the facts of the case that have been found to be true by the jury. The final judgment or decree rendered by a court based upon the verdict reached by the jury.
In the law, a proximate cause is an event sufficiently related to a legally recognizable injury to be held to be the cause of that injury. There are two types of causation in the law: cause-in-fact, and proximate (or legal) cause. Cause-in-fact is determined by the but for test: But for the action, the result would not have happened. For example, but for running the red light, the collision would not have occurred.