personal injury

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Personal Injury

Any violation of an individual's right, other than his or her rights in property.

The term personal injury is not confined to physical injuries, although Negligence cases usually do involve bodily injuries.

Cross-references

Tort Law.

personal injury

an injury to the person. Although it appears a simple phrase to interpret, in some contexts it has proven difficult. Challenging issues for the law have included whether a foetus born alive and surviving very briefly could sue for personal injury; whether an action against a solicitor for failing to raise an action for personal injury was or was not a personal injury action or whether an unplanned pregnancy was a personal injury. Often the phrase is given a definition or a partial definition in statutes.

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The goal of AccidentFirm's redesign was not only to produce an easy-to-use, attractive initial point of contact for personal injury victims, but to provide a wealth of knowledge for anyone interested in learning more about personal injury law.

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I am a personal injury lawyer and would be glad to see an end to the practice of personal injury cold calls and texts by claims management companies.

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Kirby Owens has joined Tilly Bailey & Irvine Solicitors' personal injury team, working in the firm's Stockton office.

New recruit Kirby joins TBI's team

Members of the Law Society's expert personal injury panel and individually accredited by the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers, the team at Watkins and Gunn are also recommended in the Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners publications as one of the leading personal injury firms in the UK.

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The country's largest personal injury campaign group the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL) made the firm one of its accredited practices.

Makins given personal injury nod

Quantum means the amount of compensation that should be paid for a personal injury.

Methods for personal injury damages research

Since Glenshaw Glass did not differentiate between physical and nonphysical damages, Murphy argued, the Supreme Court intended that all damages for personal injury be excluded from income.

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of the Manville Personal Injury Settlement Trust nixed payment of new claims based on the diagnoses of nine physicians and four screening companies whose names were attached to the case before Judge Jack, in which six doctors recanted their original diagnoses.

Maybe this time: though asbestos litigation has been on the scene since the 1790s, recent legislative initiatives and the ripple effects of a landmark federal court opinion may lead to a permanent answer to the liability litigation question

The books examine some of the problems in personal injury and medical malpractice litigation and possible methods of handling and solving them.

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FROM today, ECHO Motors is sponsored by law firm Mackintosh Law, which specialises in motor accident personal injury claims.

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Mealey Publications (King of Prussia, PA), a unit of LexisNexis (Dayton, OH), has begun the publication of two new litigation reports, including Mealey's Personal Injury Report and Mealey's Litigation Report: Hormone Replacement Therapy.