In a negligence claim, causation refers to

• A. The link between breach and injury
• B. The duty to care
• C. The severity of damages
• D. The standard of care

Answer: (A)

Causation in a negligence claim means there must be a real connection between the breach of duty and the injury. This involves two ideas: actual cause (the harm would not have occurred but for the breach) and proximate cause (the harm was a foreseeable result of the breach). Without this link, liability doesn’t attach because the injury isn’t shown to have arisen from the negligent act. The other concepts—duty to care, the standard of care, and the severity of damages—address whether a duty existed, what level of conduct was expected, and how serious the harm is, but they don’t establish that the breach caused the injury.