“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: Yyou were blindsided and hospitalized by a car. Yyou 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. There is more information on personal injury in my book Accident Injury Book: Hidden Inside Secrets Big Insurance Companies Don't Want You to Know About Your Injury Claim . Get your FREE copy today.

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Q: What is personal injury?

A: “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:

  • Yyou were blindsided and hospitalized by a car.
  • Yyou 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.

There is more information on personal injury in my book Accident Injury Book: Hidden Inside Secrets Big Insurance Companies Don't Want You to Know About Your Injury Claim. Get your FREE copy today.



We handle these types of personal injury cases in Virginia: 

   Alcohol / Drug Related Accidents
   Birth Defects or Injuries
   Consumer Class Action Cases / Consumer Fraud
   Defective Products / Products Liability
   Dog and Animal Attacks
   Emergency Room Errors
   Forklift Injuries
   Healthcare Injuries
   Hospital, Physician, and Nursing Negligence
   Misdiagnosis
   Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect
   Pedestrian Injuries
   Slip and Fall / Premises Liability
   Traumatic Brain Injury
   Virginia Motorcycle Accident

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