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INTERVENING CAUSE — DEFINITION

An intervening cause is one that interrupts or breaks the connection between a

defendant's act [or omissio n] and a plaintiff's injury. [Defendant's] act [or omission]

would not be the direct cause of [Plaintiff's] injury if another event intervened between

the two and that event was:

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1. Independent of [Defendant's] act [or omission];

2. Adequate by itself to cause [Plaintiff's] injury; and

3. Not reasonably foreseeable by [Defendant].