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What is Personal Injury Law?
Related Areas of Law: Misconduct - Liability - Battery - Assault - Personal
Damages - Negligence
Personal Injury Law – concerns compensation for physical
and emotional injuries suffered by a person as a result of the conduct of
another. The main issues in a personal injury case revolve around your
lawyer proving liability, causation, and damages. Before you can collect an
award, your attorney must prove that the defendant is legally responsible
for your injuries.
Personal injury law involves a strange word to most laypersons. The word is
“torts”. Torts are acts, or failures to act, that interfere with somebody's
freedom to enjoy their personal and property rights. Torts can be based on:
(1) intentional misconduct; (2) strict liability without regard to actual
misconduct; or (3) negligent misconduct.
Intentional misconduct might involve assault, battery, illegally invading a
person's privacy, or intentionally inflicting emotional distress on another
person. There typically is no insurance coverage for intentional acts, and
they are not a large part of any personal injury practice.
Excerpted
from www.deetmanlaw.com
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