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What are comparative negligence, proximate cause, and intervening causes?

Comparative negligence is when more than one cause leads to an accident. For instance, if both parties say they had the red light or a green light and they went through the intersection, a jury might think that each of them are 50% responsible for causing the accident. So, therefore, there's 50% comparative negligence on each party. Cause or causation or proximate cause is what was the cause of a particular injury. A lot of times the insurance companies will defend that your back condition is a pre-existing condition because you're a heavy laborer, but after all it's from the accident. It's your burden to prove what caused your injury. And, an intervening cause is something that happens after the accident where you're initially injured. Then, you're injured more due to that other event, the intervening cause. So for instance, if you're involved in an accident in January, and you have a neck or back injury and then in June you're in another accident and you have more neck and back injury the intervening cause for the first accident is the second.

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