What is a Personal Injury?

A personal injury can be a physical injury by means of road accident, accident at work, accident at home, disease or illness, or  a psychological injury or illness, assault claims, tripping accidents, product defect accidents (product liability) and holiday accidents.

Term personal injury also includes medical and dental accidents leading to medical negligence claims.

A personal injury may or may not result in death.

What are examples of personal injury?

• Examples of Medical Malpractice leading to personal injury:

1. Failure to Diagnose
2. Wrongful Death
3. Nursing home abuse
4. Medication Mix-ups
5. Birth injuries
6. Cerebral Palsy
7. errors in hospital treatment or by vaccinations

• Examples of psychological personal injury at works:

1. illness caused by stress at work
2. illness suffered as a result of abuse as a child
3. injury caused in a traffic accident
4. an injury received as a result of faulty goods or services
5. injury sustained by a victim in the course of a crime
6. illness caused by discrimination or harassment in your work-place.

• Examples of physical personal injury at works:

Workplace injuries take place in many ways.

1. Accident at work
2. A furniture mover injures his back lifting a couch.
3. A secretary develops carpal tunnel syndrome from extensive typing.
4. A police officer who walks the beat for many years develops hypertension and heart problems.
5. A fast-food worker suffers a post-traumatic stress disorder as a result of an armed robbery.
6. an injury caused if you trip over paving stones

This is neither exhaustive list of personal injury example nor it is limited to.

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