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.
The appellate court stated that the first two elements of professional negligenceâduty and breach of dutyâwere not at issue in the appeal. What was at issue was the trial courtâs directed verdict that the daughter had failed to present sufficient evidence on the issue of proximate cause.