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A homeowner's negligent maintenance creates a hazard, but the plaintiff's injuries would not have occurred but for an intervening criminal act by a third party. When does an intervening cause cut off the defendant's liability?

Whenever any third party is involved When the intervening cause is a superseding, unforeseeable event that breaks the chain of proximate causation Never, because the original tortfeasor is always liable Only if the plaintiff was also negligent

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When the intervening cause is a superseding, unforeseeable event that breaks the chain of proximate causation

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