Sentences with phrase «at least a partial cause»

Next, you must prove that the defendant's breach of duty was the legal cause (or at least a partial cause) of your injury.

If you make a personal injury insurance claim with an insurance company, you must show the adjuster that his or her insured's negligence was the cause, or at least a partial cause, of your injuries.

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There is medium confidence that at least partial deglaciation of the Greenland ice sheet, and possibly the West Antarctic ice sheet, would occur over a period of time ranging from centuries to millennia for a global average temperature increase of 1 - 4 °C (relative to 1990 - 2000), causing a contribution to sea - level rise of 4 - 6 m or more.

In each case, the trial judge seems to have held that a prior event which was necessary for the occurrence of the injury — an event offered by the defendant as something which would have at least been a partial defence — was not a but - for cause because its causal contribution was less than de minimis.