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What Does Personal Injury Mean?

What Does Personal Injury Mean? Personal injury can refer to physical, emotional, psychological, and reputational harm.

Accident victims should know the answer to this question: What does personal injury mean? The Legal Information Institute (LII) notes that personal injury includes harm to:

  • One’s body
  • One’s reputation
  • One’s emotions

Personal injury cases often involve some type of physical injury.

Who Can Bring a Personal Injury Claim?

You may bring a personal injury claim if:

  • You suffered an injury or lost a loved one, and
  • The injury or death is another party’s fault.

You may win your claim if you can prove your case.

Specific Types of Personal Injury Cases

Personal injury cases may stem from:

  • Car accidents
  • SUV accidents
  • Truck accidents
  • Pedestrian accidents
  • Medical malpractice
  • Defective products
  • Slip or trip and fall accidents
  • Animal attacks
  • Workplace injuries
  • Assaults

You may seek compensation for harm caused by another person or institution.

What’s the Standard of Fault in Personal Injury Cases?

Negligence is generally the standard for liability in personal injury cases. Someone is negligent when they act unreasonably. If their behavior departs from what a “reasonable person” would do in the same situation, then it is unreasonable. If the negligence causes injury or death, then the negligent party may owe the victim compensation.

Your lawyer may prove negligence by showing that:

  1. The defendant owed you a duty of care.
  2. They breached their duty of care.
  3. The negligence caused the harmful event.
  4. Your damages stemmed from the harmful event.

Your lawyer will augment this argument with your case details.

What are Examples of Negligence?

Negligence varies depending on the type of personal injury case in question. Victims should receive a personal consultation to help determine liability.

Negligence in Auto Accident Cases

Auto accident cases often involve driver error. Such errors may qualify as negligence. Motorists who speed, drive drunk, and make dangerous moves are generally negligent.

Some auto accident cases result from dangerous conditions or vehicle defects. In these cases, a manufacturer or city government could be liable.

Negligence in Defective Product Cases

Defendants in defective product (or product liability) cases may include:

  • The product designer
  • The product manufacturer
  • The product assembler
  • The product seller
  • The seller of a used product

Anyone who failed to exercise reasonable caution may be liable for a dangerous product.

Negligence in Workplace Injury Cases

An employer, employee, or third party may be liable for a workplace injury. Workers’ compensation insurance may cover certain losses—usually those that an employer is responsible for. A victim may bring a lawsuit against a negligent third party.

It is important to speak to a lawyer about your case. They can review your situation and establish liability based on the facts.

How Do You Secure Coverage For a Personal Injury?

Victims of personal injury may receive awards through:

  • Insurance
  • A pre-trial settlement
  • A settlement reached after a trial starts
  • A judgment following a trial

A personal injury may mean compensation for you.

What Losses Can You Recover Compensation For?

Victims of personal injury may receive awards for:

  • Mental anguish and other pain and suffering
  • Lost income
  • Lost earning power
  • Lost productivity
  • Past and ongoing medical bills
  • Property damage
  • Psychological treatment

The amount of compensation a victim receives varies. The severity of injuries, extent of pain and suffering, and duration of injury symptoms may affect the value of a case.

Should You Hire a Lawyer For a Personal Injury Claim?

Nobody knows what personal injury means like a personal injury lawyer. These lawyers handle personal injury cases regularly. Some lawyers handle personal injury cases exclusively.

You may hire a personal injury lawyer because:

  • You are suffering physical or psychological symptoms.
  • You believe that a law firm may handle your case more effectively than you.
  • You do not have the time to handle a lawsuit or claim.
  • You have concerns about handling your case pro se (on your own).

Hiring a lawyer may afford you more time. You may use this time to recover from injury, focus on other responsibilities, or for other purposes. Your lawyer will be seeking compensation in the meantime.

What Does a Personal Injury Lawyer Do?

They seek compensation for their clients – this is the big picture of what a personal injury lawyer does. This larger mission usually requires a lawyer to:

  • Meet with the client
  • Identify the client’s losses
  • Collect evidence of negligence
  • Collect documentation of damages
  • Hire experts
  • Arrange settlement negotiations
  • Complete the case

There is much more that a personal injury case entails. A lawyer handles every step of their client’s case, which can be a great service to the client.

Call George Sink, P.A. Injury Lawyers Today

George Sink, P.A. Injury Lawyers has been serving personal injury clients since 1977, and now, our attorneys are ready to get to work for you.

Call George Sink, P.A. Injury Lawyers today at (888) 612-7001 for a FREE consultation. You will not pay a dime unless we win your case.

DISCLAIMER: Information on this website is not legal advice. Reviewing the information on this website does not create an attorney-client relationship with the law firm. The attorney, investigator, or a representative of the firm may visit you anywhere in SC, NC, or GA for initial investigations in many circumstances. Alan Kennington responsible attorney licensed in SC. George Sink, Sr licensed in SC.

*No fee if no recovery. Fees computed before deducting expenses from recovery. "We don't get paid until you get paid” or similar language refers only to fees charged by the attorney. Court costs and other additional expenses of legal action usually must be paid by the client. Contingent attorneys' fees refers only to those fees charged by attorneys for their legal services. Contingent fees are not permitted in all types of cases.

[1] Any result the lawyer or law firm may have achieved on behalf of clients in one matter does not necessarily indicate similar results can be obtained for other clients. Verdicts, awards, and total recoveries presented reflect gross numbers, before attorneys' fees, costs and expenses are deducted.

[2] Cases are handled by a lawyer at George Sink, P.A. Injury Lawyers, who primarily practices out of our offices in Greenville at 715 Congaree Rd, Columbia at 1440 Broad River Rd, Myrtle Beach at 400 N. Kings Hwy, Suite A, Anderson at 128 N. Main St, Augusta at 3523 Walton Way Ext, Charlotte 112 S Tryon St, Ste 1760 or our principal office in North Charleston at 7011 Rivers Ave, SC. With 15 locations throughout South Carolina, North Carolina, and Georgia, it's easy for us to come to you wherever you are, even if we don't have an office in your town.

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