Personal Injuries

 

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Personal Injury falls under Tort Law and often requires a personal injury lawyer. Personal Injury involves civil law cases where you are trying to obtain compensation for an injury you sustained to your person. Physical injuries to your person could arise from being involved in an automobile accident, a railroad accident, airline or other common carrier accident, a construction or other workplace accident, being injured as a result of a dangerous or otherwise unsafe product and other injury-causing situations.

Psychological Injuries

However, a personal injury doesn’t even necessarily have to be physical-it could be psychological. Psychological, personal injury is typically caused by:

  • Psychological trauma associated with life-threatening or disfiguring physical injury
  • As a result of witnessing trauma in others
  • Or following personal escape from serious injury following a traumatic event

Before you can collect an award, your attorney will have to prove that the defendant is liable. To determine liability, the personal injury attorney must also establish negligence.

Is It Comparative Negligence?

If there is any failure on your part to exercise reasonable care to prevent personal injury or damage, then there may be comparative (or contributory) negligence, where you and the other party both are at some degree of fault. If the personal injury attorney helps you win, you may receive money (an award) to compensate for medical costs, lost wages and lost future earnings as well as possibly for pain and suffering and punitive damages.

What is a Tort?

A tort is a civil wrong recognized by law as grounds for a lawsuit. Torts fall into three general categories:

  1. Intentional torts – The act of intentionally hitting a person.
  2. Negligent torts – Involves causing an accident by failing to obey traffic rules.
  3. Strict liability torts – Liability for making and selling defective products.

These wrongs result in an injury or harm constituting the basis for a claim by the injured party (tort litigation). While some torts are also crimes punishable with imprisonment, the primary aim of tort law is to provide relief for the damages incurred and deter others from committing similar harms. The injured person may sue for an injunction to prevent the continuation of the tortious conduct or for monetary damages. Among the types of damages, the injured party may recover loss of earnings capacity, pain and suffering, and reasonable medical expenses. They include both present and future expected losses.

 


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