One of the elements of a tort is causation. Describe the two questions a court must address, and answer in the affirmative, to find causation.

A necessary element of a tort is causation. If a person fails in a duty of care and someone suffers injury, the wrongful activity must have caused the harm for a tort to have been committed. In deciding whether there is causation, the court must address two questions:
• Is there causation in fact?-Did the injury occur because of the defendant's act, or would it have occurred anyway? If an injury would not have occurred without the defendant's act, then there is causation in fact. Causation in fact can usually be determined by the use of the "but for" test: "but for" the wrongful act, the injury would not have occurred. For example, Arnie runs a red light and hits another car. The accident would not have occurred but for Arnie's running the red light.