Virginia Personal Injury Attorney

Q: What is personal injury?

Answer: “Personal injury” is a fairly broad term, so it helps to put it in simple terms. Someone suffers bodily injury due to the actions of another person. The formal definition is physical injury inflicted on a person’s body, as opposed to damage to property or reputation.

This could mean all sorts of things. Including but not limited to the following: 

You were blindsided and hospitalized by a car.

You had to have extensive and painful surgery because your doctor failed to notice an easily recognizable medical condition in its early stages.

Your house burned down due to a design flaw in a product manufactured by some corporation.

One of the keys in figuring out whether or not a personal injury case is valid is by determining whether the party at fault’s actions were negligent, which means that they acted in a way that no normal and conscientious person would. Negligence means failing to take proper care in doing something, or, in legal terms, failure to use reasonable care, resulting in damage or injury to another.

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