Proximate cause is also sometimes referred to as which of the following?
a. actual cause
b. cause in fact
c. legal cause
d. significant cause
e. close cause
In law, a proximate cause is an event sufficiently related to an injury that the courts deem the event to be the cause of that injury. There are two types of causation in the law: cause-in-fact, and proximate (or legal) cause.