proximately
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- adverb
- /prəˈkɪmɪtli/
- Jargon
:
proximamente
- The court found that the defendant's negligence proximately contributed to the accident victims' injuries.
- proximately caused
Examples
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Expert depositions would seem most appropriate in medical malpractice actions, where often the most critical evidence is the plaintiff's expert's testimony of how the physician's treatment deviated from an accepted standard of care and proximately caused plaintiff injury.
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They are paid not a penny for other losses proximately caused by the forcible displacement of owners from their homes and businesses.
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Carelessness and negligence on Cunnane's part proximately contributed to the happenings of the incident and to the injuries, loss, and damages," they claim.
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In each case, the deciding court permitted pure economic loss claims because it found that the defendant had a duty of due care, that the losses were proximately caused by the defendant's actions, and that the injury to the particular plaintiff was foreseeable to the defendant.
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He argues not simply that liberal democracy facilitates scientific progress (an obvious relationship), but also that science itself was proximately responsible for the creation and expansion of democracy.
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Governments can and have made catastrophic mistakes that have unintentionally led to their downfall, but no government in recorded history has willfully pursued policies it knows will proximately cause its own destruction.
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It caps a recovery for a patient's injury or death at $1,250,000 and limits the liability of a qualified health care provider whose medical negligence proximately caused the injury or death to the first $250,000 of damages.
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In such cases, the person bringing the charge has only to prove that school officials received notice of the offensive behavior; that school officials showed deliberate indifference to or tacit authorization of the behavior; that school officials failed to take sufficient remedial action; and that such failure proximately caused injury to the plaintiff.
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Her actions proximately led to the disastrous financial losses for the company, as confirmed by the audit.
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The investigation revealed that the pollution proximately caused health issues for the residents in the area.
Synonyms
Closer to the main cause or start of something
Antonyms
How Direct
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Proximately comes from the Latin root proximus, which means 'nearest' and is related to the English word proximity. In law, to say something was proximately caused is to name the cause that is 'nearest' to the harm — the immediate or direct cause.