A guest in your restaurant leaves angry because his steak was incorrectly cooked. He has a wreck on the way home injuring himself and others, then threatens to sue the restaurant. What necessary element is probably missing in this case to substantiate negligence?

Proximate cause

Explanation:

As it relates to law, proximate cause refers to something or an event that happened that causes some things or another event to occur. The court can deem an event to have been the actually cause of an injury even though the injury didn't occur at the place of the injury. In other words, the injury might not have happened if the event or action didn't happen; the event might not be a sufficient condition for the injury to occur, but it is a necessary condition.