DE · jury_instructions
Del. P.J.I. Civ. § 21.1
Proximate Cause
PROXIMATE CAUSE
A party’s negligence, by itself, is not enough to impose legal responsibility on
that party. A party’s negligence must be shown by a preponderance of the evidence
to be a proximate cause of the [accident / injury].
Proximate cause is a cause that directly produces the harm, and but for which
the harm would not have occurred. A proximate cause brings about, or helps to bring
about, the [accident / injury], and it must have been necessary to the result.
{If applicable}: There may be more than one proximate cause of an [accident /
injury]
See Jury Instr. No. 21.2, “Concurrent Cause.”
Provenance
- Source
- courts.delaware.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-09-23
- Edition
- civ-2025-10-22
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