Which of the following is NOT one of the three elements of negligence listed?

• A. Duty of care
• B. Breach of the standard of care
• C. Reasonable result
• D. Causation

Answer: (D)

When assessing negligence, you look for three core pieces: the defendant owed a duty of care to the plaintiff, the defendant breached that duty by failing to meet the standard of care, and there must be a link between that breach and the harm suffered (causation). Damages are typically needed to complete a claim, but the essential logical connection is causation. The option described as a “reasonable result” does not represent a recognized element of negligence, so it doesn’t fit with the three elements being tested. If your materials frame the three elements as duty, breach, and damages in that order, causation would be treated as a separate concept in that framing.